• Coinbase and Stablecore are teaming up to help community and regional banks and credit unions offer digital asset services, including trading, custody, and stablecoin payments.
• The partnership reflects the broader rebundling of financial services, bringing capabilities that once required separate crypto platforms back inside customers’ existing banking relationships.
• Coinbase is positioning itself to benefit either way; it can either own the customer relationship, or it can...

Did FinovateFall 2026 reflect a “coming of age” moment for AI?

It is probably too much and too soon to say that the current discourse around AI represents a milestone in–or, much less, a reckoning with–all the challenges and opportunities that AI technology presents. But the split-screen of last week's conference was difficult to ignore: four days (including our Leaders+ pre-conference event) of sober, sophisticated discussion on what needs to be done to take our use of AI to the...

• Payments profitability intelligence platform Torus and international advisory company SRM have partnered to help acquirers recover billions of dollars by improving fee transparency.
• The partnership comes as a white paper from Torus highlights the challenges faced by acquirers due to growing fee scheme complexity and increased regulatory scrutiny.
• Torus most recently demoed its technology at FinovateEurope 2025 in London. SRM made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2023 in New...