Zinah Abdaki

The retail FX industry is entering a phase where growth is increasingly shaped by infrastructure rather than marketing. As acquisition costs rise and trading platforms become more commoditised, brokers are turning to strategic partnerships with liquidity providers, payment infrastructure firms and embedded technology platforms to scale faster and improve operational efficiency. According to the latest Bank for International Settlements Triennial Survey , global foreign exchange trading...

Tokenisation in Europe has entered a different phase. The discussion has shifted from experimentation to controlled production design. For Swiss and European institutions, the question is no longer whether digital assets belong in the financial system, but how they integrate into regulated capital markets, treasury operations and custody frameworks. Regulated Issuance Is Moving Forward Across Europe, banks have begun issuing tokenised structured products within existing regulatory...

In 2026, payments across the European Union are expected to be increasingly instant, seamless, and secure, rather than premium features. The European real-time payments market is estimated to reach around USD 7.96 billion in 2026, with continued strong growth as instant and account-to-account rails expand across Europe. Real-time and account-to-account adoption is a cornerstone of modern digital money movement, driven by regulatory harmonisation, consumer expectations and enterprise use cases...