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Swift Goes Blockchain: 30+ Banks Join the Ledger Experiment

Swift Goes Blockchain: 30+ Banks Join the Ledger Experiment

Hey Digital Banking Fanatic, Big news from Frankfurt: Swift is going blockchain. At Sibos in Frankfurt, the payments giant announced it’s building a blockchain-based shared ledger with help from Consensys and more than 30 of the world’s largest banks (think JPMorgan, HSBC, Deutsche, Citi, Santander… the Avengers of

🇧🇷 Brazil’s Digital Bank Race: PicPay is Closing in Fast

🇧🇷 Brazil’s Digital Bank Race: PicPay is Closing in Fast

Hey Digital Banking Fanatic! Brazil’s digital banking race just got a shake-up. PicPay tripled its profit in H1 2025, hitting R$208.4 million (already 80% of last year’s full results) while growing its customer base to a massive 64 million accounts. That makes it Brazil’s second-largest

bunq Goes Crypto: Europe’s First Neobank with Flexible Staking

bunq Goes Crypto: Europe’s First Neobank with Flexible Staking

Hey Digital Banking Fanatic, On my last morning in London before flying back to Amsterdam, bunq decided to make some noise on home turf. The Dutch neobank just became the first in Europe to launch flexible crypto staking, teaming up with Kraken to let users earn up to 10% annually—

Funding Circle Lands £300M Lifeline for UK SMEs

Funding Circle Lands £300M Lifeline for UK SMEs

Hey Digital Banking Fanatic! SMEs in the UK just got a fresh boost. Funding Circle has locked in a new £300 million forward flow agreement with TPG Angelo Gordon and Barclays, which is fuel for its mission to keep credit flowing to the UK’s small businesses. The deal, which

From London to the World: Revolut’s £10B+ Expansion

From London to the World: Revolut’s £10B+ Expansion

ZA Bank Becomes Hong Kong’s First Digital Bank with 1M Users

ZA Bank Becomes Hong Kong’s First Digital Bank with 1M Users

Hi Digital Banking Fanatic! ZA Bank just hit a milestone that no other Hong Kong digital bank has reached: 1 million customers. The numbers behind that growth are equally impressive: * Deposits climbed nearly 9% YoY to HK$21.1B * Card transactions surged 33% (vs the market’s 8.4%) * Total

NOBA Sets IPO Price Ahead of Stockholm Listing

NOBA Sets IPO Price Ahead of Stockholm Listing

Hey Digital Banking Fanatic! Another Swedish FinTech is heading for the public markets! Digital banking group NOBA has priced its IPO at 70 SEK per share, giving it a market cap of 35 billion SEK ($3.7B). Trading is set to kick off on September 26 on Nasdaq Stockholm. That