Google is extending its push into India's financial services market with the launch of a UPI-powered, digital, co-branded credit card. Continue Reading »
Barclays is collaborating with UK-based artificial intelligence company ExpectAI to help small and medium-sized businesses grow their profits, using sustainability insights. Continue Reading »
Belgium bank-backed digital ID operator itsme has acquired iDIN an online identification service operated by Dutch banking joint venture Currence. Continue Reading »
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has picked Digital Asset Holdings' blockchain Canton Network to enable the tokenisation of DTC-custodied assets. Continue Reading »
Stablecoin infrastructure startup Noah has teamed up with consumer money movement app Fin.com to roll out virtual EUR and USD bank accounts to hundreds of ... Continue Reading »
HSBC is to invest £55 million into its branch network over the coming year and pledges to keep all 327 branches open until at least ... Continue Reading »
UK challenger bank Monzo is to launch its brand across Europe after securing a full banking licence from the European Central Bank (ECB) and the ... Continue Reading »
While the rate of UK unemployment rose to a four-year high of 5.1% in the three months to October, fintech hiring remained an outlier, with ... Continue Reading »
Starling Bank has opened a London HQ to house its Software-as-a-Service business Engine, creating space to house a growing staff roster, with 150 new roles ... Continue Reading »
Ani Tech, the agentic AI platform for financial services, has today launched Ani Pulse - a living, AI-powered command centre that puts autonomous agents in ... Continue Reading »
EquiLend, a global financial technology, data and analytics company for the securities finance industry, announced a strategic investment in Digital Prime Technologies, a U.S.-regulated provider ... Continue Reading »
US Bank today announced the addition of three new integrated partners to its Avvance point-of-sale lending platform, further accelerating the growth of its API-driven embedded ... Continue Reading »
OnCorps AI, a leading agentic AI platform for fund operations, has secured $55 million in growth capital from Long Ridge Equity Partners, a growth equity ... Continue Reading »
Tyro Payments Limited (ASX: TYR) (Tyro) has entered into an agreement to acquire Thriday, an AI-powered financial management platform for SMEs that automates invoicing, expense ... Continue Reading »
Nayax Ltd. (Nasdaq: NYAX; TASE: NYAX), a global commerce enablement, payments, and loyalty platform designed to help merchants scale their business, today announced its strategic ... Continue Reading »
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology platform services provider, today announced it has acquired OpenGamma, a market leader in derivatives margin ... Continue Reading »
Sardine, the leading agentic risk management platform designed to protect companies from financial crime, today announced its partnership with Helix by Q2 (NYSE: QTWO), an ... Continue Reading »
In a move to redefine digital commerce in Brazil, Juspay, a global leader in payment infrastructure, has announced a strategic partnership with Visa for the ... Continue Reading »
In July, President Trump signed into law the GENIUS Act,1 which established a framework for the issuance of payment stablecoins in the United States. Continue Reading »
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today announced a strategic collaboration with Visa to ... Continue Reading »
BBVA has rolled out a roadmap, known as ‘The Eight,’ aimed at ramping up the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to evolve the way the ... Continue Reading »
Speaking to FinextraTV in the virtual studio, Will Moroney, CRO, Temenos discussed some of the foundational challenges and opportunities banks are currently facing, especially within ... Continue Reading »
Joining Richard Peers, Founder, ResponsibleRisk, the winners of the Hackathon Established Class, Nataliya Tkachenko, Yasmin Liverpool and Andrew Torr explained the purpose behind their winning ... Continue Reading »
In Paris at SBS Summit 2025, Julian Defosse, Worldwide Financial Services Market Development Lead, AWS spoke to FinextraTV about democratising access to valuable data in ... Continue Reading »
As part of Finextra's Predict 2026 series, Andrew Smith, CEO & Founder, Sporta provided his thoughts on what will dominate the industry next year, from ... Continue Reading »
In this FinextraTV interview, Clive Redmond, Senior Vice President, Real-Time Payments, International Product Market, Mastercard and Pat Antonacci, Chief Product Officer, The Clearing House provided ... Continue Reading »
Joining FinextraTV, Andrew Smith, Founder and CEO, Sporta explained how a mission to save sports and wellbeing drove him from an RTGS and ClearBank history ... Continue Reading »
Joining the FinextraTV studio, Yogesh Patel, CTO and Chief Data Scientist, Outseer followed on from Outseer CEO, John Filby's interview by providing an in-depth look ... Continue Reading »
Joining Richard Peers, Founder, ResponsibleRisk, the winners of the Sustainable FInance.live hackathon, emerging class - NatureMind AI - made up of Hassan Sheikh, Alok Singh ... Continue Reading »
Joining FinextraTV, Joe Myers, Executive Vice President, Global Banking, Diebold Nixdorf asserted the belief that branch banking must stay and is, in fact, growing. Contextualising ... Continue Reading »
In Paris at the SBS Summit 2025, Alun Williams, CEO, Swansea Building Society, spoke to FinextraTV about the customer demand that grew out of COVID ... Continue Reading »
While at SBS Summit 2025 in Paris, Christophe Sorré, CTO, Financial Services & Consumer Industry, IBM France help to demistify some of the key differences ... Continue Reading »
In Paris, at the SBS Summit 2025, Sivakumar Chidambarathanu, CIO, Nationwide discussed the evolution of data and AI. Describing the continual transformation the IT industry ... Continue Reading »
Joining FinextraTV at the SBS Summit in Paris, Meredith Stowell, Vice President, Ecosystem, IBM discussed the importance of collaboration as a key strategy. Labelling collaboration ... Continue Reading »
How are central banks and financial institutions leveraging AI and quantum technologies to future-proof digital asset infrastructure and policy frameworks? Continue Reading »
DBS Group Holdings Stock (SGX: D05) Near Record Highs as RMB Clearing Role, Fintech Tie-Ups and Capital Returns Keep Bulls Engaged ts2.tech Continue Reading »
Australia-based fintech Tyro Payments has agreed to acquire SME financial management platform Thriday. Terms of the deal were not immediately available. Tyro said in its ... Continue Reading »
10x Banking, which won Best of Show in its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2023, has teamed up with audax Financial Technology to bring digital banking ... Continue Reading »
Visa unveiled today that it has launched stablecoin settlement in the United States. The payments giant is partnering with Circle’s USDC dollar-denominated stablecoin to enable US issuers ... Continue Reading »
As interest in digital assets and decentralized finance grows among both retail and institutional users, offering a platform that caters to both communities is a ... Continue Reading »
Last year’s FinovateEurope conference brought together fintech creators from around the world. At the event, our audience voted for three standout companies that took home ... Continue Reading »
Making headlines this December morning is the launch of Sam Altman’s World, a self-proclaimed “super app” that offers crypto payments and encrypted chat functionality. Check ... Continue Reading »
Payments platform Mollie unveiled this week that it plans to acquire business payments platform GoCardless. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Combined, the ... Continue Reading »
It may be mid-December, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to announce a bank acquisition. Online financial services company Enova International revealed that Grasshopper ... Continue Reading »
Today’s financial landscape is steered by rising consumer expectations, requiring banks to search for ways to deliver more personalized, actionable guidance to their customers. While ... Continue Reading »
Corporate card and expense management fintech Brex announced a new partnership with Fifth Third Bank this week. In the multiyear agreement, Fifth Third will leverage Brex Embedded, ... Continue Reading »
FinovateEurope returns to London on March 10 through 11, 2026. Taking place at the O2 Intercontinental in London, the event brings together 1,000+ senior-level attendees ... Continue Reading »
Social trading and investment network eToro unveiled that it will begin rolling out its stock lending program in the UK. The capability, which is available in Europe ... Continue Reading »
Rabobank and Santander Brazil are seeing efficiency gains from generative AI. The European banks use Pega GenAI from AI workflow automation system provider Pegasystems, Steve Morgan, global banking industry lead at Pega, tells FinAi ... Continue Reading »
Finastra is looking to help its bank clients streamline their mortgage lending processes with AI with multiple lending solutions. The London-based fintech has launched multiple AI-driven solutions including Loan IQ and LaserPro and is seeing banks gain efficiencies with its offerings, Andrew Bateman, executive vice president at Finastra’s ... Continue Reading »
Pathward is rolling out AI tools to drive efficiency and improve its lending functions. Microsoft Copilot was introduced six to eight months ago and has driven productivity operational excellence while reducing costs, Chief AI, Data ... Continue Reading »
Prageeth Sandakalum, vice president and principal product manager for digital, data and AI at U.S. Bank, will speak Tuesday, March 3, 2026, at the FinAi Banking Summit. The summit brings ... Continue Reading »
Citi is looking inward to identify and develop new AI use cases and deploy existing AI tools within the organization. Citi has launched two internal programs this year, AI Champions and AI Accelerators, Payal Jain, head of application engineering and platforms at the ... Continue Reading »
Enova’s $369 million acquisition of Grasshopper, announced Dec. 11, is expected to boost the digital bank’s innovation efforts. “Enova’s technology and data and analytic capabilities, especially around lending, will accelerate ... Continue Reading »
BBVA is giving almost all of its staff access to OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tools after expanding its partnership with the technology firm. The Spanish banking ... Continue Reading »
AI is responsible for productivity gains at some of the nation’s largest banks, leaders said at the Goldman Sachs 2025 U.S. Financial Services Conference this week. Executives from Bank ... Continue Reading »
Citi is deploying AI at scale internally to drive efficiency, with several tools already available to nearly 80% of its team. The $1.6 trillion bank ... Continue Reading »
Publicly traded fintech Enova International (NYSE: ENVA) said today it has agreed to acquire Grasshopper Bancorp and subsidiary Grasshopper Bank in a cash-and-stock deal valued ... Continue Reading »
The global banking sector is adding to its C-suite to keep pace with the AI revolution. Enter the chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). A CAIO is an executive focused on the oversight of development, strategy and ... Continue Reading »
FourLeaf Federal Credit Union is using AI to grow its auto loan portfolio, increasing originations while keeping quality lending standards. The $14 billion credit union has exceeded $1 billion in loan originations so far in 2025, up from $650 million ... Continue Reading »
Global technology provider HCLTech is developing gen AI solutions both internally and by teaming up with AI giants to meet the demands of its financial services clients, which include: $904 ... Continue Reading »
Wells Fargo & Co. Chief Executive Officer Charlie Scharf said artificial intelligence poses a significant opportunity to improve efficiencies and has the potential to influence ... Continue Reading »
Rocket Mortgage is quantifying AI returns by measuring the number of loans per team member. “If I think about what AI does best, it’s almost hard for me to think about a better ... Continue Reading »
Royal Bank of Canada is developing tools by combining new and old tech to fight scams powered by gen AI. The bank is blending AI and gen AI tech to fight fraud, Geoffrey Morton, senior director ... Continue Reading »
Varo Bank Chief AI and Data Officer Asmau Ahmed will speak Monday, March 2, 2026, at the FinAi Banking Summit. The summit, which will be held at the Westin ... Continue Reading »
OpenAI’s artificial intelligence products are saving workers an average of about 40 to 60 minutes a day on professional tasks, according to a large survey ... Continue Reading »
BNY and Google Cloud today announced the integration of Gemini Enterprise — Google Cloud’s agentic AI platform — into BNY’s enterprise AI system, Eliza. The ... Continue Reading »
Gen AI delivers quantifiable returns for TD Bank, and it is planning to deploy the tech more widely. One of Toronto-based TD’s first gen AI use cases was a virtual assistant for ... Continue Reading »
Europe’s Train Revolution Gains Momentum With European Sleeper’s Ambitious Crowdfunding Campaign Targeting Two Point Three Million Euros To Launch New Routes To Berlin, Paris, Milan, ... Continue Reading »