Walmart-Backed Fintech Onepay to Launch Crypto Trading and Custody Services Onepay, majority-owned by Walmart, plans to launch cryptocurrency trading and custody within its app later this year. Integrating Crypto Into the Retail Ecosystem The fintech firm Onepay, which is majority-o… #crypto #news

💡 What is MiCA? 📌 The EU’s new framework for crypto-assets 📌 Sets common rules for issuers, exchanges & wallets 📌 Balances innovation with consumer protection 🔗 EU MiCA Regulation: www.esma.europa.eu/esmas-activi... #FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU

💡 What is a regulatory sandbox? A regulatory sandbox is a framework that allows firms to test innovative financial services in a controlled environment under the regulator’s supervision. 🔗 Read more on the FIRSA website: www.firsa.eu #FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU

🇺🇸💔🇪🇺 Trump’s 2025 UN speech was the longest U.S. address on record and the most negative toward Europe. This is the focus of my first Medium article, where I track how Europe appears in U.S. UNGA speeches from 1946–2025 and visualize the results. 📖 Read on Medium: medium.com/@alfredo-hs/...

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – PayPal’s paying attention to Africa Image Source: Make A Meme Nigeria’s bank-owned fintech subsidiaries have been hunting for their breakout moment. For Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO)’s fintech arm, HabariPay, that moment came in H1 2025, where it grew its profit…

💡 FinTech = financial technology. ✅ Cheaper, faster, more inclusive finance ❌ New risks for consumers & regulators FinTech is central to the EU’s Digital Finance Strategy. 🔗 EU Digital Finance Strategy: finance.ec.europa.eu/digital-fina... #FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU

Are you an R user tired of missing out on the LLM craze? In my new tutorial I show how to use OpenAI’s GPT and Google’s Gemini models to classify political texts. I connect to the APIs directly from R using reticulate. alhdzsz.net/posts/llms_r... #rstats #dataviz #ai #python #textdata

Zero-shot classification and natural language inference (NLI) offer a powerful way to analyze political texts without labeled training data. This tutorial shows how to classify sentences using a pre-trained transformer model. Google Colab Link: colab.research.google.com/drive/1gCZBy...

Here you can find a a hands-on tutorial on how to perform Named Entity Recognition (NER) using Python’s transformers library from within R via reticulate. firsa.eu/posts/ner_re... #NLP #rstats #Python #Quarto

An insight on latest research from Vilnius University on Europe's FinTech regulatory sandbox development www.vu.lt/en/news-even...

Fintech expansion in Africa is showing no signs of slowing down. This week’s TWIF Africa covers: 🌍 New market entrants 💰 Funding updates And more Catch up on the latest fintech news across the continent: