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European Capital Markets Joint Ventures Are Giving Way to Single Owners, as BBVA Buys Out Société Générale’s Stake in Altura Markets

August 3, 2026 · 2 min read

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Digital Asset Settlement Just Lost Its Format Problem, as Partior and OpenAssets Prove Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits Can Trade Atomically

August 3, 2026 · 5 min read · Payments

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European Banks Are Rewiring Who Controls Their Core Technology, as UniCredit Moves Its IT Backbone From IBM to Accenture

August 2, 2026 · 2 min read · Embedded Finance

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Bond Trading Infrastructure Is Consolidating Into One Platform, as ICE Agrees to Buy MarketAxess for $5.7 Billion

August 2, 2026 · 4 min read · Embedded Finance

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Buy Now, Pay Later Becomes Venezuela’s De Facto Credit System, as Cashea Raises $100 Million to Expand Beyond Installments

August 1, 2026 · 2 min read · Embedded Finance

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Egyptian Businesses Get Native Dollar Access, as Mastercard and NBE Fold Cross-Border Payments Into an Ordinary Debit Card

July 31, 2026 · 2 min read · Payments

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Wholesale Tokenization Crosses Into Real Money, as Lloyds and CaixaBank Settle Live Cross-Border Deposits

July 31, 2026 · 5 min read · Payments

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Home Insurance Becomes a Same-App Banking Feature, as NatWest Turns to Uinsure for 60-Second Quotes

July 30, 2026 · 1 min read · Embedded Finance

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Enterprise Procurement Gets an Autonomous AI Workforce, as Freehand Raises $75 Million to Scale It

July 30, 2026 · 1 min read · Payments

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Brazil’s Instant Payment Rail Becomes a Credit Card Substitute, as EBANX and Pagaleve Launch Pix-Based BNPL

July 29, 2026 · 2 min read · Embedded Finance