CAPTRUST Pacific Northwest Deal Adds $1.1bn Edmonds RIA
The largest US registered investment adviser absorbs Pacific Sage Partners as record wealth management dealmaking rolls on. CAPTRUST, the largest registered investment adviser in the United States by total client assets, has acquired Pacific Sage Partners, an Edmonds, Washington firm advising on about $1.1 billion, tightening its hold on the Pacific Northwest in a record year for wealth management dealmaking. The eight-person team, led by founder and chief executive Mark Ande
Open Banking Picks a Lane: PSD3 Edges Forward, FiDA Wobbles, Core Banking Finally Ships
PSD3 nears adoption, FiDA stalls, and core banking vendors ship real growth. See how open banking is actually being built in October 2026.
Cregis Secures the Plumbing for Cross-Border Stablecoin Settlement
Cregis, a Hong Kong-based digital asset custody and payments infrastructure provider, will supply the security and key-management layer for Remi Technology's cross-border payment technology network, which connects licensed banks and coordinates their digital asset transactions. The agreement places Cregis alongside Bison Bank, the Portuguese lender whose euro- and dollar-referenced tokens give the arrangement its regulated settlement asset. Between them, the three firms are b
Cybera Money Mule Intelligence Lands on Mastercard's Recorded Future
AI personas pose as victims to capture the accounts scammers use to cash out, as reimbursement rules shift fraud liability onto banks. Banks can now screen outgoing payments against a live register of the accounts criminals use to collect the proceeds of scams. Cybera, a New York fraud-intelligence startup, has made its money mule intelligence available through Recorded Future, the threat-intelligence company Mastercard acquired for $2.65bn in 2024. The product flags accounts
Beyond Banking Grows a Conscience: October's Embedded, Green and Inclusion Signals
Embedded finance, green lending and BaaS deals shaped October 2026. See the Shares, FMO, finmid and Sainsbury's moves driving inclusion.
Fairmint Brings the Onchain Shareholder Record to Public Companies
Fairmint is taking its onchain shareholder record to public companies, extending a service it built for private cap tables to the official ownership files of listed firms. Announced on 28 October 2026, the offering lets a public issuer appoint Fairmint TA LLC, the company's SEC-registered transfer agent subsidiary (file no. 084-06901), to move its master securityholder file, the legal record of who owns the company, onto a blockchain and maintain it there as the authoritative
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