BitPay has switched on one-tap crypto buying for users in more than 100 countries, adding Apple Pay, Google Pay, card and SEPA payments to a checkout that now completes a purchase in a single confirmation. The feature, live on iOS and Android and powered by MoonPay, widens a US-only Apple Pay flow that BitPay turned on in June 2026, opening the door to European buyers through SEPA for the first time. The update, announced on 5 November 2026, lands the familiar rhythm of mobil

The FCA is opening what it calls the world's first quantum computing experimentation group run by a financial regulator, giving banks, technology vendors and research labs a supervised environment to test whether quantum machine learning can catch the money laundering and fraud that today's systems miss. The Quantum Experimentation Group launches in the first quarter of 2027 and will open with the costliest compliance problem UK firms face: financial crime. For compliance and

As Europe's buy-now-pay-later rulebook finally lands on 20 November and Klarna raises another $650M, lenders and PropTech founders are reading the same tea leaves: speed, trust, and embedded distribution are the new moats. Nothing concentrates a sector's mind like a regulation deadline and a mega-round in the same week. As of this week, the lending stack, from BNPL merchant checkouts to SME credit lines to tokenised property, is moving faster than at any point since the 2021

Core banking provider 10x Banking and lending-technology firm ezbob have agreed a partnership to help banks build and launch SME lending products in weeks rather than months, a direct answer to a UK market where small-business credit has shrunk to its lowest level in nearly three decades. Announced on 3 November 2026, the deal pairs 10x's modular core and ledger with ezbob's lending-orchestration platform, which handles onboarding, application, credit decisioning and the AI a

Bitget has turned its off-exchange custody offering into a six-partner network that lets institutional clients trade the exchange's spot, margin and futures markets while their coins stay with an outside custodian or bank. The Bitget Open Custody Network, announced in mid-October, connects providers including Copper, Fireblocks and Swiss bank Sygnum to Bitget's order books, so hedge funds, market makers and asset managers can reach its liquidity without first wiring assets in

Revolut has closed a secondary share sale that values the London-based fintech at $115bn (£87bn), a 53% jump from the $75bn it commanded a year ago and a figure that now places it above several of Europe’s established banks by equity value. The deal lets employees and early backers sell existing shares rather than raising fresh capital for the business, and it crowns a year in which Revolut secured banking permissions across four continents. The transaction was led by Glade B