Institutional digital asset lending got its first dedicated, securities-finance-grade venue on May 14, when Digital Prime Technologies switched on live trading at Tokenet, with Galaxy Digital (Nasdaq: GLXY) executing among the inaugural transactions and EquiLend supplying the distribution network. The launch arrives as the institutional crypto lending market rebuilds toward its 2021 highs, and it directly targets the operational gap that finance desks have flagged since the 2

AWS, Stripe & Circle put AI agents on stablecoin rails. Quantum IPOs surge. JPMorgan tokenizes money funds. The week finance crossed a threshold.

Cavenwell Group, a regulated fiduciary and fund services firm administering more than $7 billion in client assets, has launched Assetize, a full-stack tokenization platform that compresses legal structuring, administration, custody, transfer agency, and on-chain issuance into a single coordinated workflow for institutional sponsors. The platform targets one of the most persistent bottlenecks in tokenized capital markets: the operational drag of stitching together six or more

Affirm crushes Q3, Brickken brings NAV oracles to tokenized real estate, and AI rewires credit. Inside this week's lending and PropTech shake-up.

Brussels delivered the regulatory text Europe's banks have been preparing for since 2023, and inside the same seven days, a regulated German bank flipped its retail core onto cloud-native rails. The post-PSD2 era is no longer hypothetical. There are weeks in financial regulation when very little happens, and there are weeks like this one. As of this week, two long-running storylines, Europe's post-PSD2 open banking rewrite and the slow grind of core-banking modernisation, hav

Elliptic, the London-headquartered blockchain analytics provider, has closed a $120 million Series D round at a $670 million post-money valuation, capital it will deploy to scale AI-native crypto compliance infrastructure for banks, exchanges and government agencies. The round, led by growth equity firm One Peak, pulls in three institutional investors whose participation says as much about the deal as the cheque size: Nasdaq Ventures, Deutsche Bank and the British Business Ba

EquiLend has acquired Finadium, the independent securities finance research and consultancy founded in 2005, in a deal that bolts a respected market-intelligence franchise onto one of the industry's largest trading and post-trade technology providers. The acquisition, announced on 12 May 2026, lands as global securities lending revenue sits at record levels and as private-equity capital reshapes the post-trade vendor landscape. Finadium will operate as a subsidiary of EquiLen

FinBox, the Bengaluru-based credit infrastructure provider that raised $40 million in a Series B round led by WestBridge Capital in September 2025, has launched Atlas, an agentic AI loan origination system that compresses credit turnaround time from 21 days to a single day. The platform, which went live in May 2026, is one of the first serious attempts in Indian lending to redesign loan origination around what AI can autonomously execute, rather than layering language models

A new BCG report and a fresh $2M raise out of Nairobi show how the global beyond-banking thesis is finally getting structural, and why ESG fintech is set to absorb $123.7bn this year alone. For most of the last decade, "beyond banking" was a slide in a venture deck. This week it became something closer to a balance sheet. A pair of fresh signals, one from Boston Consulting Group's new continent-wide diagnostic of African fintech, the other from a Kenyan working-capital lender