Author: Banking Herald

BNP Paribas, HSBC, Citadel Securities and SoFi join a16z-led round, as Visa and JPMorgan deepen their use of the blockchain network Digital Asset, the firm behind…

The C$130 million round, backed by Mubadala and Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, values the challenger at C$1.33 billion as it seeks ministerial approval for a federal banking…

The deal brings a two-million-user youth banking platform into Barclays UK, with US operations remaining with Acorns under the Acorns Early brand Barclays has agreed to…

The first cross-border use of Singpass removes the need for manual documentation, targeting Singaporean entrepreneurs expanding into Malaysia OCBC Malaysia has become the first bank to…

Each token is backed by one gram of physical gold held in a Singapore vault, with retail access launching in the second half of 2026 DBS…

The integration enables instant peer-to-peer transfers between the two countries via mobile banking apps and digital wallets India and Nepal have launched a direct payment linkage…

The deal lets merchants go live in one to two weeks rather than months, with AI-driven fraud detection and reconciliation built in as Kwik Payments targets…

The new license brings Latvia’s count of licensed payment institutions to nine, as the central bank issues its 12th license to a financial market participant this…

The deal pairs Yellow Card’s stablecoin rails across 34 countries with embedded wallet infrastructure, as Visa, Mastercard and PayPal already use Yellow Card for cross-border flows…

Existing backers Greyhound, Addition and Lightrock have already committed to roughly half the round, as Satispay reports €116 million in annualised revenue and 6.5 million customers…