BNY has named Figment as a validator provider for staking on its Digital Asset Custody platform, giving the world's largest custodian bank a second route into a service it first opened to institutions through Galaxy in August 2026. For eligible clients, the practical effect is straightforward: they can now stake supported digital assets held at BNY without moving those assets out of custody, using Figment's infrastructure alongside the servicing workflows they already run thr

Charles Schwab is opening client brokerage accounts to the AI assistants people already use. The firm has launched an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets clients connect their own large language model, starting with Anthropic's Claude, to their Schwab account. Once authorised, the model can pull market data and research, analyse position performance, summarise a portfolio, set alerts and, on thinkorswim-enabled accounts, prepare, place and manage trades. Ev

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) plans to make tokenised securities available on Solana in the second half of 2027, extending a tokenisation service that went live barely two weeks ago to one of the busiest public blockchains for real-world assets. The decision adds Solana to a roster that already includes the Canton Network and DTCC's private Besu network, and it confirms that the operator of much of the United States' post-trade infrastructure intends to l

As the BNPL arms race moves into its consolidation phase, embedded lending infrastructure quietly raises fresh rounds, and tokenised real estate confronts the limits of liquidity, this week's lending and PropTech headlines tell one story: credit is being rewritten, and not everyone is going to make it to the next version. There's a reason bankers have started calling the past seven days "the week the tectonic plates moved." Between a transatlantic BNPL carve-out, a comeback s

FNZ Bank SE, one of Germany's largest business-to-business direct banks, will consolidate its fund dealing and post-trade operations onto Clearstream, routing them through the Deutsche Börse Group unit's Vestima platform. The move hands a single provider responsibility for Clearstream fund processing across the bank's mutual funds, ETFs and other investment vehicles, and it lands as European firms compress their operating models ahead of the switch to T+1 settlement on 11 Oct

From Mastercard's $500 million emerging-markets push to Doconomy's climate-tech expansion, Beyond Banking has officially stopped being a slide in the strategy deck — it is now the strategy deck.