A Goldman Sachs-sponsored research paper argues technology and AI can help RIAs close a widening advisor capacity gap ahead of a $100 trillion wealth

Police Federal Credit Union has deployed Mahalo Banking’s platform alongside a Corelation KeyStone core migration, adding real-time integration and external transfer

Day three in Miami put trust at the centre of the agentic payments debate, from Mastercard and Société Générale on stage to the Big Issue Debate. Lloyds and Visa settled live obligations in a stablecoin, Chainlink and DTCC demonstrated cross-chain repo

Wayne Hughes – Digital assets – BNP Paribas Securities Services

Earnix CEO Robin Gilthorpe discusses insurance decision-making, moving AI beyond pilots and helping insurers respond more quickly to changing risk.

Gnosis Chain is giving up its own validators to settle on Ethereum. Co-founder Dr Friederike Ernst explains what that means for banks and fintechs.

SIBOS Miami 2026: Tom Elliott – Global Trade Solution -​ HSBC

Day two in Miami belonged to BNY, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Citi and HSBC describing agents that repair payments, triage trades and check documents in production, with people kept for the decisions that matter.

Revolut has applied for a Swiss banking licence, committing CHF 150 million over five years to expand local services including Swiss IBANs, salary accounts and deposit protection.

One month after its UK launch, Float says 75% of onboarded merchants processed transactions on their first day live, with average order values of £676.

Trading technology leader Gaurav Tiwari on event sequencing, shared data models, observability and where LLMs help, or hurt, inside financial institutions.

The Shariah-compliant lender is offering intermediaries up to 0.80% procuration fee on HMO and MUFB Buy-to-Let cases until 31 August 2026.

Africa Finance Corporation has become the first African issuer of a regulated digital bond and the largest international issuer in the Swiss Franc market.

New Talos analysis finds USDC settled $32 trillion in adjusted transfer volume in 2026, with DeFi infrastructure driving most of its turnover.

LemonEdge CEO David T. O’Malley on why private markets fund accounting fell behind, what modernising it involves and where AI helps after its Series A.

Tom Durkin – Global Product Head for GPS CashPro – Bank of America

AJ McCray – Managing Director and Head of Global Payments Product Management – Bank of America

Philip Bruno – Chief Strategy and Growth Officer – ACI Worldwide

Revolut Bank S.A. has received a full French banking licence, clearing the path to serve 30 million Western European customers under ECB supervision.

Altimetrik’s Vikas Krishan says a rising AI token bill measures activity, not value, and that the AI Act delay is a board-level risk decision, not a reprieve.

Uzbekistan is emerging as a serious fintech market, driven by its young population, local payments infrastructure, and evolving regulation.

The public-private partnership has flagged fraudulent housing applications since 2017, serving 48 councils and processing around 100 enquiries a year.

The payment technology firm will use OpenPayd’s rails-agnostic platform for fiat settlement, OTC conversion and stablecoin-enabled liquidity management.

WH Ireland has selected the MARS platform to systematise vulnerability identification and produce auditable Consumer Duty board reports across its retail client book.

The Dubai-based exchange has secured a US court injunction freezing stolen assets, as it pursues civil action against DPRK-linked hackers.

Sudheer Padiyar of SunTec Business Solutions explains why the Middle East’s shift to e-invoicing is a transformation story, not a compliance chore.

Madhu Nadig, co-founder and CTO of Flagright, on what breaks first in real-time payments, the hidden costs of legacy compliance and where AI helps.

Financial advice firms have spent years moving client paperwork online, but for many the underlying process has changed less than the screens suggest. Information captured in a portal is still downloaded, checked and typed again into a CRM, and then again later in the advice journey. Joe Power, Chief Operations…

The 150-year-old Connecticut mutual bank is deploying DN Series ATMs and AI-driven managed services across its 16-branch network.

The commercial equipment lender is launching a branded consumer financing product at ecommerce checkout, with sewing retailer Stitch It International as its first

After the $LAPTOP token crash on Base, TransFi’s Raj Kamal argues that payment stablecoins and crypto speculation now share networks but little else.

Signicat’s NFC-based identity verification technology has been certified under the UK DIATF, covering Right to Work, Right to Rent and DBS checks.

The largest Sibos ever held in North America opened with the IMF making the case for AI on the rails we already have, Citi’s Jane Fraser arguing that resilience is what lets a bank take risk, and Swift putting a number on its ledger. The Fintech Times sat down with Bank of America and ACI Worldwide on day one.

Fuels Capital co-founder Gabriella Sahlman discusses private credit, risk, fintech and financing businesses that fall outside standard lending models.

TBC Bank Uzbekistan is expanding its TBC Salom debit card through a new partnership with UZCARD, with plans to issue up to one million new cards in the first phase.

A secure sandbox helps banks test new technology in context, reduce decision delays, and move promising ideas toward adoption.

The $2.5bn hospitality operating system has obtained an Electronic Money Institution licence from De Nederlandsche Bank, the first such authorisation for a hospitality OS

UK-based Acquis will embed its post-activation insurance solution into California lender ILS’s equipment finance process to cut administrative burden.

NatWest is offering loan holidays, emergency facilities and rate reductions to farming customers as prolonged drought squeezes crop yields and working capital.

Boku’s single-integration platform now connects global merchants to Capitec Pay, as e-commerce transactions on the South African method rose 32% last year.

The Charlotte-based banking technology provider brings its modular BankOS platform to the AFC’s 150-member coalition of fintechs and banks.

The OCC denied Wise’s US bank charter application in July, citing persistent AML compliance failures and governance deficiencies, not its transaction volumes.

Celent research released by Temenos at Sibos finds almost three in four bank customers are only moderately satisfied, and price alone will not hold them.

CBI managing director Liliana Fratini Passi on how Verification of Payee and Request to Pay are helping stop payment fraud before money leaves the account.

Vugar Usi of MEXC joins Mark Walker to discuss how inflation and costly payments are driving stablecoin adoption, why regulation matters, and how crypto and traditional finance are converging.

Vardan Khachatryan of Fast Shift argues Europe’s new trade corridors will only carry commerce if the payment rails beneath them are built first.

The Crypto and Digital Assets APPG has written to all major UK bank chief executives demanding answers on debanking of licensed digital asset firms.

VerityX Innovation Labs has launched a UAE challenge seeking AI solutions that detect and stop mule-account fraud in real time, with a focus on accuracy, explainability and bank-ready deployment. Do you like this personality?

The bank issued USD 200m in digitally native floating-rate notes on Euroclear’s regulated DLT infrastructure, a first for any G-SIB.

Dubai’s D33 agenda, e-invoicing and banking reforms are turning trusted, real-time regulatory data into core infrastructure for faster commerce, smarter lending and digital growth.