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View indexRegistry — Vantage Bank Texas (US) added to the registry
Enforcement — Civil Money Penalty issued against Muthoot Finance · RBI · Jul 18, 2026
Partnership — Cashee Youth Banking App Launches in Saudi Arabia Backed by Arab National Bank · Jul 18, 2026
Product — Visa Launches Stablecoin Platform for Banks and Fintechs · Jul 17, 2026
M&A — Socure Acquires BNPL Database Qlarifi for Credit Infrastructure · Jul 17, 2026
Funding — Alpaca Raises $135M to Scale Embedded Brokerage Infrastructure · Jul 17, 2026
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Get connectedLV · Riga · Bank of Latvia / FCMC / ECB
NL · Amsterdam · DNB (Dutch banking license)
BE · Brussels, Belgium · ECB (full banking license); National Bank of Belgium
SG · Singapore and San Francisco · Multiple (80+ licenses globally)
SA · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · SAMA (SAR 20B capital)
US · Denver, Colorado · N/A — middleware provider
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Browse full registryThe RBI on Jul 17, 2026 imposed monetary penalties on six companies, including Muthoot Finance, for non-compliance with regulatory norms. Muthoot Finance was fined Rs 5.80 lakh for failures in risk categorisation review and suspicious transaction reporting.
The CFPB is preparing to unveil a new open banking rule addressing how banks price fintech access to consumer financial data. The bureau is considering a model where banks provide some data free but can charge above defined thresholds.
The Federal Reserve issued a prohibition order against James Burns, former chief lending officer of Heritage State Bank in Lawrenceville, Illinois. The action cited appraisal-related lending misconduct.
De Nederlandsche Bank fined payment institution CCV €2.65 million after 4,200 merchants went unmonitored for transaction activity over a 23-month period.
On July 15, 2026, Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) briefed the President on plans to overhaul bank governance, sanctions processes, and inspections, including pre-emptive inspections and rationalized sanction criteria. This is structural oversight reform rather than a discrete enforcement action.
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Subscribe to alertsSpare partnered with Xsquare to enable open finance-powered business payments. The collaboration focuses on account-to-account payment flows for B2B use cases. The partnership was announced on Jul 10, 2026.
Cashee, a mobile banking and financial education app for youth aged 6 to 18, is preparing to launch in Saudi Arabia with Arab National Bank (ANB) as its sponsor bank. ANB issues prepaid Visa cards for the platform under a BaaS arrangement. The launch builds on ANB's USD 3 million investment in Cashee in 2022.
RS2 launched Beyond by RS2 on Mar 17, 2026, a digital payments brand built on its BankWORKS platform. The program lets fintechs issue cards and process payments across Europe under RS2's EMI license and Visa/Mastercard memberships. It combines card issuing and merchant acquiring on a single platform.
Alpaca raised $135 million in a round led by Peak XV with participation from Elefund, Opera Tech Ventures, and Unbound. Total financing reached $435 million including debt from Payward and BMO. The capital will fund expansion of its brokerage API infrastructure across traditional and tokenized markets.
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