Singapore – – November 01, 2026 -- Thunes now routes instant cross-border payouts of up to $10,000 per recipient per day to UnionPay cards in mainland China, covering 79 major banks, after deepening its alliance with UnionPay International (UPI).

HONG KONG – November 01, 2026 -- RD Technologies is building stablecoin-backed settlement routes between Ghana and Asia with Stanbic Bank Ghana and Transika, and will support RDUSD, a US dollar stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., as a new settlement option in its ecosystem.

Arlington, Va. – October 31, 2026 -- Navy Mutual Aid Association has awarded Lacey Langford, founder of MILMO and MilMoneyCon, its Lieutenant Timothy Dix Bolles Excellency in Education Award for 15 years of financial education work with the military community.

Europe – October 31, 2026 -- The EU's Council Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER) endorsed the trilogue texts of the Payment Services Directive 3 (PSD3) and Payment Services Regulation (PSR) in April 2026, with implementation targeted for 2028.

United States – October 31, 2026 -- Judah Spinner's BlackBird Financial has built a significant ownership position in Fiserv, Inc., a company that generated more than $5 billion in adjusted net income over the past twelve months and carries a market capitalization of around $33 billion.

BlackBird is a hedge fund modeled on the Buffett Partnership of the 1950s. The announcement did not state the size of the stake. Spinner said the fund looked past Fiserv's short-term difficulties and focused on its long-term position.

Kingman – October 31, 2026 -- Assuming a company sale will fund retirement is the first and most critical planning mistake Arizona business owners make, according to Kingman financial expert Scott Preston, featured in a HelloNation article titled "Top 7 Retirement Planning Mistakes Business Owners Make in Arizona."

WASHINGTON – October 30, 2026 -- Fifty-seven percent of U.S. consumers report a negative consequence for merchants that do not accept their preferred payment method, according to the seventh annual Consumer Holiday Spending Study from the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) and TSG (The Strawhecker Group). The study of 1,099 U.S. consumers, conducted September 8-13, 2026, also found that 44% feel more financially stressed than last year, up from 27% in 2025.

HONG KONG – October 30, 2026 -- Nasdaq-listed TROOPS, Inc. (TROO) has signed a term sheet with Young Platform S.p.A. to license a proprietary digital asset exchange platform, a deal that becomes binding on November 1, 2026.

NEW YORK – October 30, 2026 -- Hanwha Investment & Securities, a financial affiliate of Fortune Global 500 company Hanwha, has adopted the Chainlink data standard and Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the official oracle and interoperability infrastructure for its global real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform.

Oakland – October 30, 2026 -- McKay Brothers is introducing wireless transport services that connect U.S. futures and equity markets with AWS cloud hubs in Columbus, Ohio (us-east-2) and Ashburn, Virginia (us-east-1). The company says each route will offer the lowest commercially available transport latency.