For fintech founders, generative AI presents a dangerous paradox: It is simultaneously a massive business accelerant and a potential business-ending liability.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently convened a public roundtable, Tokenization – Moving Assets Onchain: Where TradFi and DeFi Meet, the fourth in a five-part series hosted by its Crypto ...

It does a good job of consolidating fragmented statutory regimes, but it is not a transformative market-design statute ...

Global market structure is poised for another year of rapid evolution, with multiple forces converging to redefine how institutional participants operate in 2026. A new outlook from Crisil Coalition ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cautioned that the rapid expansion of non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs) – which includes investment funds, insurers, and private credit providers — is ...

Cyprus and European capital markets are entering a new phase in 2026, shaped by sweeping regulatory changes and heightened supervisory expectations, according to Cyprus Securities and Exchange ...

Nigeria's SEC has announced new minimum capital requirements for all market operators, including brokers, fintech, and ...

Capital market stakeholders have identified innovation, sustainability, financial literacy, digitisation and investors’ protection as catalysts to deepen participation in the Nigerian market. Director ...

Stablecoin regulation does not signal the end of DeFi. It marks the end of DeFi operating outside the regulatory system. Liquidity will concentrate around fewer assets, protocols will become more ...

India’s capital markets have become more resilient over the past few years, driven by the steady growth of domestic capital ...

I wish to state, by way of caveat, that I do not consider the 2015 minimum capital requirements for capital market operators in Nigeria to remain adequate for the business environment of 2026.