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BY FINTECHLY EDITOR
BY FINTECHLY EDITOR · 11 AUG 2026
BY FINTECHLY EDITOR · 11 AUG 2026
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UK financial crime decision-makers are struggling to keep pace with AI-enabled fraud.
BY FINTECHLY EDITOR · 10 AUG 2026
Buy now, pay later activity will count towards a UAE credit file for the first time from July 2026, closing a gap that has widened alongside the country's $5 billion BNPL market.
BY RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY · 28 JUL 2026
HM Treasury's two AI Champions have published a plan setting out how the government, regulators and financial firms should speed up the safe adoption of artificial intelligence, with 10 recommendations the government says it has accepted where they fall to it.
17 JUL 2026
Three announcements, one bet: open banking gets a permanent legislative home, stablecoins get transatlantic alignment, and gilts go on-chain. Britain is competing on rule-making speed, not capital. The gap between announcement and enforceable rule is the whole risk.
17 JUL 2026
Most crypto firms may struggle to clear FCA authorisation as the UK’s new regime raises the bar beyond AML registration.
14 JUL 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority has published the final rules for the UK's cryptoasset regime, requiring trading platforms, intermediaries, custodians, stablecoin issuers and staking firms to obtain FCA authorisation to serve UK customers.
10 JUL 2026
The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority have set out how they will share responsibility for regulating the largest stablecoins, with the Bank taking the backing assets and the FCA keeping conduct and consumer protection.
10 JUL 2026
Buy now, pay later becomes a regulated product in the UK on 15 July, and the most demanding part of the new regime lands on the smallest purchases.
10 JUL 2026
Aviva, one of the UK's largest pension providers, is moving to deliver financial advice and guidance at scale under Britain's new Targeted Support regime, in one of the first big provider deployments since the rules took effect.
10 JUL 2026
FCA’s Mills review says retail financial services are moving towards AI-enabled and delegated journeys, raising questions over advice, redress, Big Tech and supervision.
6 JUL 2026
Crypto scams topped $14billion in 2025, as pig butchering networks became more industrialised, AI-enabled and harder to disrupt.
5 JUL 2026
FCA cuts stablecoin capital requirements and confirms UK authorisation opens 30 September 2026. Read how the dual FCA-BoE regime will work.
1 JUL 2026
Binance will restrict EU services from 1 July after missing the MiCA deadline, as authorised rivals prepare to gain customers.
28 JUN 2026
Following a $3.2 million funding round, Kalipso co-founders Pierre Ferran and Virginia Debernardi share insight into how the company plans to grow its regulatory compliance platform and why AI-generated advice must always lead back to the law.
26 JUN 2026
MEPs have backed a digital euro with free basic services and privacy safeguards, as Moody’s points to uncertain demand and high bank costs.
25 JUN 2026
eToro and Charles Stanley Direct say the UK’s new 22% charge on cash interest in Stocks and Shares ISAs could add complexity and deter cautious savers from investing.
25 JUN 2026
Fintech and payments leaders are seeking continuity on regulation and investment as Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation opens another period of political uncertainty.
23 JUN 2026
The Bank of England has dropped proposed customer holding limits and relaxed its backing rules, but industry groups say the revised framework could still weaken the commercial case for sterling stablecoi
22 JUN 2026
Social media platforms and telecoms providers are facing renewed calls to stop fraud closer to its source after UK payment fraud losses rose to £1.28 billion in 2025.
15 JUN 2026
A new global report says beneficial ownership registers need better cross-border links to help banks, regulators and law enforcement trace hidden ownership structures.
11 JUN 2026
Ripjar research shows financial institutions increasingly treat adverse media screening as a core financial crime control, but manual searches and fragmented systems remain common.
1 JUN 2026
Research from VinciWorks suggests a gap between compliance confidence and practical preparation, with crypto exposure emerging as one of the clearest weak spots.
26 MAY 2026
Trump’s fintech order has put non-bank access to US payment rails back in focus, with regulators asked to review how fintech firms fit into core infrastructure.
22 MAY 2026
Tennessee has introduced a tax on overseas money transfers, drawing fintech industry criticism as US remittance rules become more complicated.
22 MAY 2026
Kaspersky research finds that nearly half of adults experienced tech-enabled abuse in the past year, while awareness of the term remains low.
21 MAY 2026
Industry figures have responded to reports that the Bank of England is reconsidering proposed stablecoin holding caps and reserve requirements.
17 MAY 2026
The 2026 King’s Speech sets out reforms affecting UK fintech, payments and digital finance, from PSR consolidation and digital ID to cyber resilience and late payment protections.
13 MAY 2026
Australia’s proposed CGT reforms have prompted fintech warnings over startup funding, employee equity incentives and early-stage investment.
13 MAY 2026
Regulation decides what fintechs can build and how fast they can launch it. We cover the regulators, the laws and the enforcement that set those limits: MiCA, Section 1033, the AI Act, stablecoin licensing, financial-crime rules and consumer-protection reform, across the UK, EU, US and the Gulf.
Alongside the news, this is where our intelligence comes into its own. The Regulatory Calendar tracks the deadlines, consultations and rules coming down the line, and Enforcement & Warnings logs the fines and actions as they land, so you can see a change coming while there’s still time to act.
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