Western Union will now pay remittances directly into mobile wallets across parts of Africa through the infrastructure of dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO), starting with a live corridor in Cameroon. The move extends a partnership that until now covered only the collection side of cross-border transfers, and it gives Western Union a faster route to deliver money in a market where most recipients rely on mobile money rather than bank branches. dLocal supplies the technology and connectivity

FinanceX Magazine is proud to announce its partnership as an official media partner of the 27th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum, taking place on 19 November 2026 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Limassol, Cyprus. Organised by QUBE Events, this one-day forum sits at the crossroads of payments, compliance, RegTech and artificial intelligence, convening leaders from Cyprus, Europe and beyond. Building on the success of the 2025 edition, the 2026 Forum brings together banks, EMIs, P

New Ripjar research of 400 compliance leaders finds 84% are worried about AI-enabled financial crime, yet only 28% have fully deployed AI to counter it. Financial institutions have rolled out AI in AML screening far faster than they have made it count. Research published on 15 October 2026 by Ripjar, a UK financial-crime screening firm founded in 2013 by former GCHQ technologists, finds that 84% of senior compliance leaders are concerned about AI-enabled financial crime, whil

Stripe is buying Parafin, FedEx and Stripe are turning parcel data into credit signals, ID Finance pulled in 545 million euros for Plazo, and PropTech tokenisation stack grew. Here is why SME lending just rewrote its own rules.

BingX EU has secured a MiCAR licence from Austria's Financial Market Authority (FMA), giving the exchange a regulated base to passport crypto services into 29 European Economic Area countries once it begins trading there. The authorisation, announced on 14 October 2026, registers BingX EU as a crypto-asset service provider, but it lands more than three months after the European Union's hard licensing deadline and leaves the exchange still preparing to switch on its regulated

As of this week, Thought Machine's commercial momentum, 10x Banking's fresh capital, and Mambu's agentic AI play are turning core banking modernisation from a slide-deck ambition into a procurement line item. BaaS, meanwhile, is quietly consolidating around the providers who can spell DORA. For roughly a decade, "core banking modernisation" sat somewhere between a procurement joke and a vendor pitch. This week it looks different. The regulation is tightening, the vendors are

Pliant, the Berlin-based business payments fintech, has secured full authorisation from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority as an electronic money institution, letting it issue cards and run payment accounts for British customers through its own regulated subsidiary rather than a third-party partner. The FCA granted the permission to Pliant Payments Limited on 14 October 2026, moving the company's UK operation inside a locally supervised entity for the first time. The Pliant

FinanceX Magazine is pleased to announce its official media partnership with the India Fintech Revolution Summit 2026, taking place on 18 November 2026 in Mumbai, India. Organised by TRAICON Events, the summit convenes investment banks, fintech innovators, regulators, and the financial institutions defining the next phase of digital finance across emerging markets. India now stands as the world's third-largest fintech ecosystem, with digital finance adoption reaching 85% amon

Franklin Templeton and its alternative-credit arm, Benefit Street Partners (BSP), have folded the investment team and a seed portfolio of Encina Lender Finance into their asset-backed finance business, adding 14 investment professionals and roughly $480m of existing commitments. The move pushes BSP into consumer and commercial lender finance, a corner of private markets that large managers are racing to build out as the broader asset-backed finance market swells toward an est

As of this week, a €17 million Series A extension, a BaaS acquisition closed on 7 October, and a Chase/Gusto payroll rollout have redrawn where the embedded-finance frontier actually sits. The destination, increasingly, is inclusion. Embedded finance used to be the dinner-party topic that bankers mentioned to sound current. Over the last seven days, it has become something stickier: a sequence of real deals, real licences changing hands, and real customers being folded into f