FinTech, Payments & Blockchain

New York – September 14, 2026 -- Eddid Securities USA Inc., a FINRA-registered introducing broker-dealer, has secured FINRA-approved correspondent clearing arrangements with tZERO Group under FINRA Rule 4311, granting its clients regulated access to digital asset securities trading and custody.

Eddid USA gains access to tZERO Securities ATS for eligible digital asset securities

Eddid USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Eddid Financial, has entered agreements with tZERO's regulated broker-dealer subsidiaries covering trading, clearing, and custody. As a subscriber to the tZERO Securities ATS, operated by tZERO Securities, LLC, Eddid USA can now facilitate customer trading in eligible securities, including digital asset securities.

Dubai – September 13, 2026 -- The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the largest financial hub in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region, has confirmed the program for the inaugural Dubai Future Finance Week, running from November 2 to 6, 2026, with more than 850 speakers and over 85 events across 14 stages in the city.

DIFC schedules 12 specialized forums under a single financial-sector platform

The event, themed "Finance Reinvented: Converging Innovation, Strategy and Purpose," is structured around six focus areas: fintech, tokenization, Islamic finance, wealth management, sustainable finance and private capital. Each forum is designed to connect global companies, market operators and regulators around a specific segment of financial-sector transformation.

London and New York – September 13, 2026 -- Coinbase has selected ION's XTP for Event Contracts platform to handle clearing for Kalshi, the world's largest prediction market, as trading volumes in event-based contracts accelerate.

Platform processed one million Kalshi trades over Super Bowl weekend

ION and Coinbase began partnering in December 2025 to support Kalshi's event contract listings, with the three parties collaborating to expedite analysis, development and rollout. During the initial deployment phase, XTP demonstrated capacity to absorb a spike in activity, processing Kalshi's first one million trades during Super Bowl weekend.

Dubai – September 13, 2026 -- The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) has confirmed the program for the inaugural Dubai Future Finance Week, set to run from November 2 to 6, 2026, gathering more than 850 speakers across over 85 events.

DIFC consolidates six financial verticals under one platform

The week-long program is structured around 12 flagship forums held across 14 stages throughout Dubai, under the theme "Finance Reimagined: Where Innovation Meets Policy and Purpose." The agenda spans six focus areas: FinTech, Tokenisation, Islamic Finance, Family Wealth, Sustainable Finance and Private Capital.

Locust Valley – September 12, 2026 -- TraderMade Systems Ltd, a foreign exchange market data provider, has agreed to supply real-time and historical FX data to EntangleX, part of the QuantumX Group of Two Hands Corporation (OTCID: TWOH), for testing artificial intelligence, machine learning and quantum computing-based financial prediction models.

EntangleX will benchmark quantum-AI models against live FX market data

The initial programme centers on foreign exchange markets, where TraderMade's data depth and volume allow EntangleX to validate model performance and reliability against real-world trading conditions. EntangleX is examining whether AI and quantum computing techniques can detect patterns and market relationships in FX datasets that traditional analytical methods may miss.

Frankfurt am Main – September 11, 2026 -- Germany has a realistic chance of restoring potential economic growth to more than 1% annually over the coming decade, according to a new KfW Research study, up from a rate that has slipped to barely above zero after standing near 2% in 2015.

KfW ties growth recovery to labor, capital and productivity gains

The study, titled "Standort Zukunft. Wie Deutschland zu neuer Stärke und Wachstum findet," identifies productivity as the most critical lever for reversing more than a decade of stagnation. KfW CEO Stefan Wintels and Chief Economist Dirk Schumacher presented the findings alongside a twelve-point policy paper in Frankfurt.

Miami and Madrid – September 08, 2026 -- Securitize Corp. (NYSE: SECZ) and Socios.com have formed a strategic partnership to develop regulated tokenized equity offerings for minority interests in professional sports teams, targeting a global franchise market estimated at $500 billion in aggregate value.

Companies to launch Socios Equity Token brand for regulated sports equity

Under the deal, the two firms plan to work with sports teams, existing owners and institutional investors to structure and tokenize minority equity stakes under the Socios Equity Token brand, subject to securities laws, league requirements, club approvals and jurisdictional restrictions. Socios.com will manage sports-industry relationships and the fan-facing engagement layer, while Securitize will handle regulated securities issuance, investor onboarding, ownership-record administration, transfer controls and ongoing servicing through its regulated affiliates.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - April 14, 2026 - Halcyon, a U.S.-based financial technology provider, has positioned its True Solutions Suite as a comprehensive compliance and verification platform for lenders, banks, credit unions, and tax preparation firms. The suite combines direct IRS data access, AI-driven workflow automation, and real-time identity verification to reduce loan rejections, prevent investor buybacks, and maintain regulatory compliance from application to close. The platform addresses a financial services market in which synthetic identity fraud costs U.S. banks an estimated $3.2 billion annually, and where FinCEN's 2024 advisory is tightening detection obligations across participating institutions.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - April 14, 2026 - Bank of America has released a cluster of operational and financial disclosures in early April 2026, led by a 20% increase in CashPro mobile app usage and a client payment throughput rate of $38,000 per second. Alongside the digital milestone, the bank announced the redemption of $3 billion in fixed/floating rate senior notes originally maturing in April 2027 and reported that 341 Merrill advisors have been included on Barron's 2026 "Top 1,500 Financial Advisors" list. The announcements span corporate treasury services, capital structure management, and wealth management, signaling concurrent activity across multiple business lines.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - April 14, 2026 - Safe Harbor Financial Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: SHFS) has operated the United States' first compliant cannabis banking program since 2015, growing to serve licensed cannabis operators across 41 states and territories. The Nasdaq-listed fintech connects cannabis businesses to FDIC- and NCUA-insured partner institutions while managing the compliance infrastructure that conventional banks routinely decline to provide. The company reports more than $26 billion in total depository transactions processed and a client base measured in the thousands, establishing it as the largest purpose-built financial infrastructure provider serving the U.S. licensed cannabis sector.