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Hey Digital Banking Fanatic, Big move on U.S. 🇺🇸 soil: Nubank just applied for a national bank charter. The Latin American giant is no stranger to bold plays, but this one signals a real attempt to go global. If approved by the OCC, Nubank would join the U.S. banking

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

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

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—

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

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