Emirates NBD has become the first bank in the Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye (MENAT) region to settle live cross-border US dollar payments on the Partior blockchain network, moving a two-year-old technology partnership into production. Corporate and institutional clients can now send real-time USD payments to beneficiaries banking with J.P. Morgan, which acted as both settlement and beneficiary bank in the first completed live transaction. The launch converts an Octobe

FinanceX Magazine is delighted to announce its official media partnership with the AI in Finance Summit London, taking place on 15 September 2026 at 1 America Square, London. Hosted by RE•WORK, the summit is a leading gathering for professionals exploring the most cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and their adoption across financial services. This partnership reflects FinanceX Magazine's ongoing commitment to spotlighting the technolog

Berlin-based corporate card fintech Pliant has gone live in the United States, naming Coastal Community Bank as the sponsor bank behind its entry into the world's largest commercial card market. The arrangement, announced July 14, gives Pliant a regulated banking partner to issue cards nationwide and marks the operational milestone the company set when it raised its $40 million Series B in April 2025 explicitly to fund U.S. expansion. What Does the Coastal Partnership Actuall

The Vault, a Swiss and EU regulated digital asset infrastructure platform, has integrated P2P.org's validator network so that institutional clients can stake supported assets without moving them out of custody. The integration launches with Ethereum (ETH) and TRON (TRX) support and connects clients to a validator operation P2P.org says secures more than $10 billion in delegated assets across 40-plus proof-of-stake networks. For regulated treasuries and asset managers, the pit

FlexTrade Systems has integrated portfolio construction and risk analytics from London-based Portx directly into FlexONE, its buy-side order and execution management system, giving portfolio managers a real-time view of portfolio risk before and during execution rather than after the trading day closes. The integration embeds Portx's optimization and risk tools inside the FlexONE interface and API suite, extending a workflow FlexTrade has been building out with a succession o

The public-market debut of SpaceX became the single largest net buy of the second quarter across every generation of retail investor, according to the Q2 2026 Apex Investor Pulse report published by Apex Fintech Solutions. The listing drew cross-generational demand even as retail investors rotated out of the spring's energy and commodity winners and into the artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout, with memory chips at its center. The data, drawn from Apex's clearing

The financial sector is being targeted 300 times more often than any other industry, and this week's numbers on deepfakes, DORA enforcement, and biometric certification tell you why every board should be paying attention. If you spent this week arguing with your board about the cybersecurity budget, congratulations, you have new ammunition. Between fresh disclosures on deepfake fraud losses, the accelerating enforcement of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and th

Spare and Xsquare have partnered to embed account-to-account "Pay by Bank" payments into business workflows in the UAE, giving corporate finance teams a route around the 2 to 3 percent fees and multi-day settlement lags that come with card-based B2B transactions. The tie-up plugs Spare's Open Finance infrastructure into Xsquare's B2B payments platform, targeting payables, receivables, and cross-border flows under the Central Bank of the UAE's Open Finance Framework. What does

Cross-border payments crossed the "pilot to production" line this month, and the regulators, card networks, and stablecoin issuers all showed up at the same time. There are quiet weeks in payments, and then there are weeks like this one. Between the European Union closing the door on unlicensed crypto-asset service providers, Mastercard confirming atomic FX settlement on the Eurosystem's TIPS platform, and a 140-company coalition rolling out a new dollar stablecoin, the indus