Basware has completed its acquisition of Trustpair, closing a deal first announced on 26 August 2026 and extending the accounts payable software vendor's fraud controls from the invoice itself to the supplier bank account that receives the payment. The companies confirmed completion on 5 October 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. The logic is narrow and specific. Basware's software already establishes whether an invoice is authentic, accurate and properly approved. Non

FinanceX Magazine is delighted to announce its official media partnership with the Fintech Revolution Summit – Saudi Arabia 2026, a premier gathering for the Kingdom's financial services community. Organised by TRAICON Events, the summit takes place on 4 November 2026 at the Radisson Blu Convention Center, Riyadh Minhal, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Held under the theme Transforming Payments & Finance in the Heart of the Middle East, the one-day summit convenes banking and financ

Allocators can now hold an actively managed bond fund onchain for the first time. Plume, the blockchain built for real-world assets, has launched its nBND vault, a tokenised bond ETF structure backed by the Fidelity Total Bond ETF (FBND) as its primary reserve asset. The move, announced on 5 October 2026, pushes onchain fixed income past the short-dated Treasuries and money-market paper that have defined the sector so far. What has Plume actually launched? Plume has opened a

WealthTech's October opens with FNZ's AI build-out, Flourish's MassMutual exit and JPMorgan tokenising private equity. Here is what it means for advisers.

Across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, banks say fraud is becoming markedly harder to detect, and AI now sits on both sides of the fight. AI-enabled fraud in EMEA is becoming harder to detect faster than it is growing in size, and the institutions keeping pace are those linking their fraud defences across the whole enterprise. More than a third of banks, neobanks and fintechs across Europe, the Middle East and Africa have seen fraud attempts climb by more than 25% over th

Intesa Sanpaolo's Fideuram lost almost €95m to an AI-enabled deepfake fraud. With deepfakes at 6.5% of global fraud and DORA now enforced, the identity layer is the new perimeter.