Wealth management platform FNZ has raised $650 million in new equity funding from its institutional shareholders, the second such cash injection that the firm has ... Continue Reading »
A report from the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has highlighted the challenges involved with the nascent tokenisation market including uneven efficiency gains for ... Continue Reading »
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has extedned the coverage of its online tool, Green Checker, which is designed to identify projects eligible for green financing Continue Reading »
Wall Street broker Charles Schwab has splashed out $660m to acquire investment platform Forge Global in a sign of the growing interest in private investment ... Continue Reading »
Crypto exchange Coinbase is to launch a new savings account in the UK, offering 3.75% AER interest, instant access, and FSCS protection Continue Reading »
Standard Chartered has joined with DCS as the principal banking partner for DeCard, a next-generation credit card enabling seamless stablecoin spending in the real world. Continue Reading »
Over four million Square merchants can now accept bitcoin payments at the point-of-sale, marking a major mainstream use case for the cryptocurrency. Continue Reading »
Paymentology, the global leader in next-generation card issuing and payment processing, today announced a landmark partnership with Constantinople, one of Australia’s most ambitious fintech innovators. Continue Reading »
At the Singapore FinTech Festival, Mastercard announced its ambition to make online shopping across Asia Pacific password-free and number-free by 2030. Continue Reading »
LemFi, the financial platform built for immigrants, today announced the launch of its new Instant Access Savings Account in the United Kingdom, powered by ClearBank, ... Continue Reading »
In a world where tipping is still tied to cash or awkward workarounds, MojoTip offers a fully digital tipping and payout platform that lets professionals ... Continue Reading »
LHV Bank announces that its personal current account will track and pay the full Bank of England base rate, currently 4% AER, on balances up ... Continue Reading »
Creditinfo, a global provider of credit risk and data intelligence, and NOTO, an enterprise platform for fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML), today announced a ... Continue Reading »
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is strengthening its international footprint with a strategic partnership on artificial intelligence (AI) with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) ... Continue Reading »
The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), the independent regulator of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), has today released the results of its artificial intelligence ... Continue Reading »
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is pleased to announce that it entered into agreements today (Wednesday) to acquire a 20 per cent stake ... Continue Reading »
Banking Circle S.A. (Banking Circle) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary BC Payments Pte. Ltd. (BC Payments Singapore) has been granted a ... Continue Reading »
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) today announced the recent acquisition of its long-term partner, PriceStats, the leading provider of daily inflation statistics derived from digitally-sourced ... Continue Reading »
Off the back of Sustainable Finance.Live 2025, Professor Samer Bagaeen, Professor, Royalty Town Planning Institute Trustee and Technical Director, Arcadis (Town Planning) spoke to Richard ... Continue Reading »
At Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Kelly Wilson, Financial Services Industry Principal at Pega, explored how exception handling and compliance are evolving in the era of ... Continue Reading »
Before the recent Sustainable Finance.Live event, Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE, CEO, Green Finance Institute spoke with Richard Peers, Founder, Responsible Risk about the GFI's mission ... Continue Reading »
At Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Joseph Oko Lartey, CEO, Central Securities Depository & Matthieu de Heering, Global Head of Business Development, Capital Markets, Montran, discussed ... Continue Reading »
In Frankfurt at Sibos 2025, Elaine Duff, Head of Money Movement and Retail Payments, FIS discussed the energy at Sibos and some of the fundamental ... Continue Reading »
At Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Jacob Aruldhas, CEO of ECS Fin, advocated for a transaction-centric approach to payment processing, highlighting the inefficiencies caused by fragmented, ... Continue Reading »
Speaking to FinextraTV from Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Arun Kini, Managing Director, Payments, Finastra speaks to the changes, trends and challenges within cross-border payments. Kini ... Continue Reading »
At the SBS Summit 2025 in Paris, James Powell, Global Head of Lending, SBS spoke to FinextraTV about the auto financing industry and how it ... Continue Reading »
Joining the FinextraTV studio, Andros Gregoriou, Head of Research and Professor of Finance, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, helped to demystify the rise ... Continue Reading »
Joining FinextraTV at Sibos in Frankfurt, Scott Manson, Senior Director, Product Management, LexisNexis Risk Solutions brought with him a copy of The Bankers Almanac and ... Continue Reading »
Joining the FinextraTV studio at Sibos in Frankfurt, Alistair Brown, Global Head of Open Banking and Payments, EPAM shared his passionate opinions on the future ... Continue Reading »
Taking time out from Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Abhi Kumar, Strategic Partnerships Lead, Thunes and Sebastian Siebert, Director, Payment Sales, Finastra joined the FinextraTV Studio ... Continue Reading »
While at Sibos in Frankfurt, Sheri Brandon, Global Head of New Business, Financial Services at Worldline, shared her thoughts on the best strategies for multi-rail ... Continue Reading »
How financial institutions, payment providers, and policymakers collaborate to unlock the full potential of instant, borderless payments? Continue Reading »
This week in Santa Cruz County business: Local fintech company’s latest acquisition; inaugural Lookout List spotlights readers faves Lookout Santa Cruz Continue Reading »
Mercurity Fintech to Rebrand as Chaince Digital Holdings Inc.: New Name, Ticker Symbol 'CD' and Website to Launch November 13, 2025 The Manila Times Continue Reading »
A newly announced strategic partnership between FintechOS and Finastra will help modernize the account origination process for small businesses and consumers. The pact will integrate ... Continue Reading »
CB Insights is out with its State of Insurtech Q3’25 report. The top takeaway? With the total number of deals down and merger and acquisition ... Continue Reading »
We have two more weeks until the holiday season slowdown, but the fintech news pulse is already beginning to slacken. So far this week, we’re ... Continue Reading »
Cloud-based billing and payment platform Paystand is acquiring blockchain payments company Bitwage this week. The California-based company will leverage Bitwage to build a Global Autonomous Finance Network to ... Continue Reading »
Digital experience analytics provider Glassbox announced its acquisition of Anodot, a provider of real-time anomaly detection and business monitoring. Terms of the acquisition were not ... Continue Reading »
This week’s edition of Finovate Global features the latest fintech news from Egypt. Fawry and Wadi Degla Partner to Offer Integrated Digital Payments A strategic ... Continue Reading »
For financial institutions deciding on their modernization strategy, what are the options? Does legacy technology need to be abandoned immediately or entirely? Or are there ... Continue Reading »
We shared this news in yesterday’s Finovate weekly LinkedIn newsletter (subscribe if you haven’t). But we’re happy to share it with Finovate blog readers today. ... Continue Reading »
Just days after we featured Canada in our weekly Finovate Global column, we can now add to our understanding of what is driving fintech innovation ... Continue Reading »
Banking and financial services company HSBC has selected ValidiFi to power its bank account validation and fraud monitoring operations. A leader in predictive bank account ... Continue Reading »
Crypto solutions provider for businesses Ripple has announced its acquisition of digital asset wallet and custody company, Palisade. The move is designed to enhance Ripple’s ... Continue Reading »
Digital identity company Ping Identity has agreed to acquire UK-based biometric authentication specialist—and FinovateEurope 2025 Best of Show winner—Keyless. Terms of the acquisition have not ... Continue Reading »
Austin Capital Bank co-founder and Chief Executive Erik Beguin will speak at the inaugural FinAi Banking Summit in Denver on March 3, 2026. The summit, ... Continue Reading »
Israel-based esh Bank is on its way to building an “AI-native” bank that shares the revenue it generates from making loans. “Esh stands for equal ... Continue Reading »
Hidden entrepreneurs are all around, operating their small and microbusinesses from what looks like typical retail accounts. For financial institutions, identifying consumer accounts being used ... Continue Reading »
AI-driven fintechs were the top recipients of funding during the third quarter, while financial advisory and wealth tech fintechs registered the highest growth in headcount. ... Continue Reading »
FIS is continuing its investment in AI as it sees higher client retention rates and improving risk management. “We anticipated that AI would transform financial ... Continue Reading »
At least six fintechs have said over the past five months that they will expand their AI and fintech operations in Ireland. In fact, more ... Continue Reading »
Lloyds Banking Group Plc is using thousands of its staff as guinea pigs for an AI financial assistant it’s designed to help customers manage their ... Continue Reading »
Banks, fintechs, credit unions and tech giants are looking to leadership to spearhead AI strategy as the technology continues to improve speed, efficiency and overall ... Continue Reading »
Fenergo, a global provider of AI-powered client lifecycle management and financial crime compliance technology, has named Hishaam Caramanli as president and chief operating officer, effective ... Continue Reading »
Technology companies and financial institutions are open to hiring some of the 600 AI unit employees laid off by Meta last month. AI-native feedback ... Continue Reading »
Vine Financial, a commercial lending accelerator for banks and credit unions, has enhanced its AI-powered platform to analyze additional financial statements, helping lenders make faster, ... Continue Reading »
Piermont Bank Chief Executive Wendy Cai-Lee approaches emerging technology from a holistic viewpoint — assessing client needs and measurable impact across the bank. The $500 ... Continue Reading »
Bank of America has launched a generative AI assistant to redefine efficiency in its global payments solutions division. The gen AI assistant, AskGPS (global payment ... Continue Reading »
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit has signed a $38 billion deal to supply a slice of OpenAI’s bottomless demand for computing power. Amazon shares surged. Amazon ... Continue Reading »
Jelena Zec, director of venture investing at Citi Ventures, will speak at the inaugural FinAi Banking Summit in Denver on March 3, 2026. FinAi Banking ... Continue Reading »
Cloudflare Inc. shares surged to a record after posting better-than-expected sales figures that topped quarterly and annual estimates, following a reorganization and the addition of ... Continue Reading »
Banks in the United States are continuing their investment in AI, which will have both short- and long-term effects on their efficiency ratios. Publicly held ... Continue Reading »
AI-driven communication compliance company Smarsh’s approach to AI is twofold: it builds proprietary AI technology for regulated industries while also outsourcing its AI-driven customer service ... Continue Reading »
Financial institutions are deploying AI in nearly all back-office functions and are showing improved efficiencies in operations. Deployment of AI within treasury management processes can ... Continue Reading »
The largest technology companies are betting on an AI future powered by gigantic data centers filled with humming servers. Now that the staggering cost of ... Continue Reading »
DropWorks Rum raises nearly £500,000 through crowdfunding as first special-edition release sells out in 48 hours TheBusinessDesk.com Continue Reading »