The Waiting Room - FTW Clarity Circle - Issue #628 Friday, October 2nd 2026 08:00AM

SoftBank Is Exceeding Its Own Debt Limits to Bet Everything on AI. Someone Else With a SoftBank Address Sent Us a Different Kind of Declaration.

Rosalia Mazza

Masayoshi Son broke ground on a $500 billion AI campus and told investors SoftBank may exceed its own borrowing limits... Full Article

Open letter to Mark Carney on Robo-Advice

By Adam French, Founder/CEO, Scalable Capital

I am very pleased that Mark Carney has robo-advice on his mind. For him to be speaking about a nascent... Full Article

Wise Launches UK Current Account With 3.26% Variable Rate as £250 Billion Sits in Zero-Interest Accounts

Rosalia Mazza

The global payments company has formally entered the UK current account market, offering a variable rate on GBP balances and... Full Article

India's Digital Rupee Gains Momentum with Fintech Integration

Rosalia Mazza

India's Digital Rupee, introduced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in December 2022, gains momentum. Cred has become the... Full Article

Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Reports $40 Billion Q1 Loss on Tech Sector Weakness

Rosalia Mazza

Norway’s $1.7 trillion wealth fund posted a $39.7B Q1 2025 loss, mainly due to weakness in tech stocks, following a... Full Article

Banking Tech Awards

December 3rd, 2026

We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Banking Tech Awards will take place on 4 December 2024 at the... Read More

Seamless Saudi Arabia

November 9th, 2026

Seamless Saudi Arabia is the Kingdom’s leading event for digital commerce, embedded finance and omnichannel e-commerce. It’s where merchants, retailers... Read More

Event Tech Live – THE TECH EVENT OF THE YEAR

November 11th, 2026

The hybrid exhibition and multi-strand conference is designed to offer our visitors a dynamic way to research and learn about... Read More

Bitcoin MENA 2027

Date to be announced. BTC Inc's Bitcoin conference for the Middle East and North Africa; organisers have announced the next... Read More

Insurance Innovators Summit | Insurance Conference

November 3rd, 2026

The world's most important insurance conference. Designed by insurers for insurers to define the industry's future | 3-4 November 2026,... Read More

FinTech Meetup Europe - Tallinn

Hello Tallinn-FinTech Fans! Let’s start uniting FinTech Founders, Corporates, Developers, and VCs across Europe to share, build and collaborate. The... Read More

Hyperledger Argentina

The Hyperledger Foundation is an open source collaborative effort hosted by the Linux Foundation and created to advance cross-industry blockchain... Read More

FinTech Meetup Europe - Lisbon

Hello Lisbon-FinTech Fans! Let’s start uniting FinTech Founders, Corporates, Developers, and VCs across Europe to share, build and collaborate. The... Read More

FinTech Meetup Europe - Frankfurt

Hello Frankfurt-FinTech Fans! Let’s start uniting FinTech Founders, Corporates, Developers, and VCs across Europe to share, build and collaborate. The... Read More

Citi Accelerator TLV

Come meet like -minded people who are interested in Fintech, have a startup, or are looking for their next idea,... Read More