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La Hood's Bill Expanding Health Savings Account Eligibility
11+ min ago (127+ words) WCSJ News Darin La Hood has introduced legislation that would expand eligibility for Health Savings Accounts by allowing individuals to keep an HSA even if their spouse is enrolled in a Flexible Spending Arrangement. The proposed Health Savings for Families…...
Worldline, Visa, ING: Europe's live agentic payment
1+ hour, 58+ min ago (389+ words) Worldline, ING, and Visa say they have completed a live end-to-end agentic payment transaction in Europe. That matters because the discussion around agentic commerce has so far been dominated by prototypes and future-state thinking." Mathieu Altwegg positions Visa's contribution as…...
Lloyds customers urged to shut accounts over debanking of left-wing outlet
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (834+ words) SUPPORTERS of independent media are being urged to ditch any accounts they have with Lloyds after it emerged a left-wing publication had been debanked by the organisation. The National reported earlier this week how The Canary had revealed Lloyds is…...
UK Roadmap Backs Tokenized Payments, Multi-Money System
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (56+ words) HM Treasury urges tokenization and new digital money in the UK retail payments infrastructure to enable a multi-money ecosystem and programmable payments....
Wema Bank targets youth innovation with hackaholics 7. 0
3+ hour, 19+ min ago (279+ words) Wema Bank has unveiled the seventh edition of its innovation programme, Hackaholics, with a focus on empowering young Nigerian innovators and accelerating the growth of technology-driven solutions across Africa. The financial institution announced Hackaholics 7. 0 at a news conference on Wednesday…...
Crypto-friendly Erebor Bank in talks to raise funds at valuation of at least $8 B
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (182+ words) Digital-first Erebor Bank is discussing a new fundraising round that could value the lender at no less than $8 billion, roughly double its $4. 35 billion valuation at the end of last year, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the talks. Founded…...
Hot topics: reflections on the Point Zero Forum and Swiss Fintech Week
4+ hour, 50+ min ago (595+ words) As the weather hotted up in Zurich last week, so too did the debate, with the Point Zero Forum coinciding with the first Swiss Fintech Week. Both formats highlighted the dynamic interplay of the financial industry, technology and regulation. Looking…...
NOBA Bank and Tieto Banktech partner to strenghten payment security across markets
14+ min ago (367+ words) Tieto Banktech is implementing Verification of Payee functionality for one of the leading specialist banks in Europe, NOBA Bank Group, helping to strengthen its already advanced and robust fraud and payments framework for customers across its brands, Bank Norwegian and…...
Stablecoin X Launches Stablecoin X Harness: Stablecoin Orchestration Platform to Accelerate USDe Adoption
3+ hour, 22+ min ago (67+ words) The Malone Telegram NEW YORK, July 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stablecoin X Inc. (Nasdaq: "USDE), the first public stablecoin infrastructure company focusing on the Ethena digital dollar ecosystem, today announced the official launch of its flagship infrastructure software platform, Stablecoin X Harness…...
Aged 15 to 23? How to track down your Child Trust Fund
21+ min ago (518+ words) A new taskforce has been created to find ways of reuniting young people with unclaimed'Child'Trust Funds. It is thought hundreds of thousands of people could claim savings worth a combined "1. 6 billion under the new push to chase the matured accounts....