Egypt's largest bank has begun issuing a US dollar corporate debit card aimed at giving companies direct, account-linked access to foreign currency for international payments, a product that arrives less than two years after Egyptian banks were forced to suspend most dollar card spending during the country's foreign exchange crisis. The National Bank of Egypt (NBE), the state-owned lender that holds roughly a quarter of Egypt's banking assets, has partnered with Mastercard to

As of this week, SS&C, d1g1t, and WealthAi are quietly reshaping digital wealth management — and none of it features a robo-advisor front-end.

A single week in July 2026 stitched together a bank breach, a payments fintech compromise, an EIC-funded deepfake defender, and the first real signs of DORA enforcement. Here is what changed, and what it means for anyone with a balance sheet. The week the "cyber tail risk" line item stopped being theoretical If you are a CISO, a Chief Risk Officer, or a board director at a European financial entity, this was a bad week to be on holiday. As of the week ending 24 July 2026, the

Objectway has entered exclusive talks to acquire French capital markets software specialist SLIB from BNP Paribas and Natixis, a move that extends the wealthtech vendor's reach for the first time into securities trading, clearing and settlement. The deal is expected to close by 31 December 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and employee consultation processes in France. For a firm known primarily for wealth, private banking and asset management technology, the target is a

Visa and Chinese payments group Lianlian DigiTech have run what they describe as the first live business-to-business agentic transaction in Greater China, using Lianlian's AI agent, LoopXPay, to source a product sample from a supplier and settle payment inside a single automated workflow. The move extends Visa's agentic commerce infrastructure from the consumer checkout, where it has been piloted since spring 2026, into corporate procurement, the larger and more complex side

From tokenised dollars to a pan-European wallet, how the seven days ending 24 July 2026 turned "payments modernisation" from a slide deck into a shipping product. The week payments stopped being polite If you spent this week refreshing the payments news feed, you already know the vibe: something has shifted. As of this week, three parallel movements, Visa's live stablecoin infrastructure, Stripe's audacious swing at PayPal, and the pan-European Wero wallet's roadmap confirmat

Tokenized Treasuries hit $15.9B, DTCC's July pilot bridges TradFi and DeFi, and Washington's quantum bet lands. Inside the frontier week.

Boerse Stuttgart Digital has integrated EUR CoinVertible, the euro stablecoin issued by Société Générale-FORGE, into its trading and custody platform, making it the first stablecoin issued by a bank subsidiary to enter the firm's regulated infrastructure. The move, announced on 23 July 2026, deepens a two-decade commercial relationship between the Boerse Stuttgart Group and Société Générale and extends it from traditional capital markets into digital assets. What is Boerse St