Digital Banking

Fintech Futures published the highest volume of content under the Digital Banking tag last week, covering a wide range of subjects. On the banking and licensing front, it reported that Revolut won conditional approval for a US bank charter, that Allica Bank applied for a Swedish banking licence, and that Maxim debuted UK credit cards for African diaspora with Paymentology. It also covered a string of M&A and investment stories, including Eftsure's acquisition of Relish, Nasdaq's acquisition of Dasseti, BitGo's acquisition of an NYDIG unit, Stripe's acquisition of Clerky, Nayla securing $17.9m for micro financing in Saudi Arabia, SBI paying $270m for a 20% stake in Ajaib, and Northern Trust's MoU with CSC. Leadership moves were noted at Apex Group and Ingenico, and the newsletter ran recurring features such as its weekly top-five news round-up (4 September 2026), an ICYMI funding round-up, monthly top-five partnership and launch stories for August 2026, a Demystify Podcast episode on the "Intelligent Ledger," a September 2026 issue announcement for Banking Technology Magazine, spotlight coverage of the PayTech Awards USA 2026, and an opinion piece on Kraken and Grab.

Connecting the Dots in FinTech focused on a smaller set of stories, including Revolut's US banking hurdle, a comparison of Stripe vs. Adyen performance in H1 2026, OpenPayd's move to bring 43 U.S. licences into its global push, Mollie and GoCardless joining forces to build a European financial home, Singapore's $173M investment into fintech amid a decade-low in private funding, and Circle's USDC branding placement on Chelsea's shirt in the Premier League.

Fintech Wrap Up covered fewer, more analytical topics, including a deep dive on financial institutions building their own transaction foundation models, a piece by Chris Walters (CEO, Finastra) arguing AI won't replace banking software yet, and a reports round-up touching on top banking trends for 2026, usage-based billing infrastructure, and the state of intelligent finance in the UK.

Fintech Business Weekly and The Fintech Blueprint each contributed narrower coverage. Fintech Business Weekly reported on legal filings alleging Homeland Security and Tether illegally seized stablecoins, and covered Coastal's earnings miss in a fintech recap. The Fintech Blueprint published an analysis of Vanguard's $4B acquisition of Altruist.