Daily brief

September 24, 2026

5 stories curated for this day.

DriveWealth, the US broker powering Revolut's US stock trading service, disclosed that an unauthorised party accessed its network on 4–5 September via a social engineering campaign, exposing the personal data of some Revolut customers who traded US stocks; DriveWealth and Revolut have emailed affected customers. Sources: thenextweb (opens in a new tab)
Cleverbridge has completed France's first Passkey-authenticated agentic purchase, a live-checkout payment made on a Revolut card, under its pilot with Visa and Revolut announced earlier this month. Sources: finextra (opens in a new tab)
Revolut is trialing its Pay with Smile face-payment feature, now live for customers paying with their face at three Kiss the Hippo cafés in Bloomsbury, Chelsea and Soho, London. Sources: finextra (opens in a new tab)
Kraken introduces Kraken Borrow for US customers, now live, letting users spend beyond their cash balance with no repayment deadline and no minimum payment. Sources: kraken (opens in a new tab)
Revolut confirms some customers were impacted by a data breach at US broker DriveWealth, its second security incident in a matter of days; the breach has occurred and affected customers. Sources: finextra (opens in a new tab)