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Nik Storonsky has a number he likes: 6 per cent. That's Revolut's loan-to-deposit ratio, against roughly 100 per cent for a conventional bank, and in the Patrick Jenkins Interview in the Financial Times published this week, Revolut's founder and chief executive explains why he intends to keep it that way.
22 SEP 2026
Fin.com, a New York-based cross-border payments company, announced a $20 million seed round led by Expa and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, with Coinbase Ventures, sovereign and royal family offices across the Gulf and Africa, and other investors also participating.
17 SEP 2026
Mastercard published a major report on the future of AI shopping agents on 8 September, forecasting that 300 million shoppers will use AI agents on a routine basis by 2030, mainly in the US, UK, the Netherlands, China and South Korea.
11 SEP 2026
Visa has set out a new approach to onchain credit, designed to let stablecoin-linked card programmes and fintechs borrow working capital by combining VisaNet settlement data with blockchain-based lending infrastructure.
10 SEP 2026
Mastercard didn't sign a partnership with BVNK. It bought the company outright: a deal worth up to $1.8bn, including $300m in contingent payments, that closed on 3 August 2026, well ahead of the year-end timetable Mastercard set when it announced the acquisition in March.
1 SEP 2026
Global fintech investment reached $103.1 billion in the first half of 2026, up from $72.2 billion in the second half of 2025.
25 AUG 2026
Picture an agent built on Cloudflare's new wallet infrastructure. It has a spending allowance, a list of approved merchants and a maximum transaction size, all set by the business that deployed it.
25 AUG 2026
Financial regulators from three separate jurisdictions have started directly testing a live implementation of a newly finalised US post-quantum cryptography standard on bank wallets and cross-border digital asset transfers, in a pilot that moves the quantum-security debate from policy papers into working code.
25 AUG 2026
Agentic commerce already has live payment rails. What it does not have is a Know Your Agent standard: an agreed way for a bank to verify which agents deserve to hold a customer's payment credentials in the first place.
10 AUG 2026
RealFi CEO John O’Connor discusses stablecoins, real-world returns and building trust in digital asset infrastructure.
5 AUG 2026
Azimkhon Askarov of CONCRYT discusses cross-border payments, merchant infrastructure, LLMs in payments data and transaction optimisation.
29 JUL 2026
Learn how RTP real time payments work, from RTP network messages to limits, use cases, and controls so you can launch instant payments with confidence.
27 JUL 2026
