Do Kwon, the former CEO of crypto firm Terraform Labs, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison over an "epic fraud" related to the ... Continue Reading »
Nationwide Building Society has been fined £44 million by the Financial Conduct Authority for inadequate anti-financial crime systems and controls. Continue Reading »
Enova, an American lending company, has announced its agreement to acquire Grasshopper Bancorp, including its subsidiary Grasshopper Bank, for $369 million. Continue Reading »
The Bank for International Settlements in tandem with Swift and central banks from Italy, France and Germany has uncovered key challenges facing the financial system ... Continue Reading »
BNY has integrated its entperisie AI platform, Eliza, with Google Cloud's agentic model Gemini, providing deeper research capabilities for market analysis and equipping the company's ... Continue Reading »
NatWest has reached an agreement with WTW, a global advisory and brokerage company, to acquire the UK bank's 85% stake in workplace savings and pensions ... Continue Reading »
AI-powered credit intelligence platform AIR has raised $6.1 million in a seed funding round co-led by Work-Bench Ventures and Lerer Hippeau. Continue Reading »
Truist Wealth, the private wealth business of Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC), is proud to announce a leap forward in its digital transformation journey, powered ... Continue Reading »
Paxos, the leading blockchain infrastructure platform for innovative institutions and enterprises, today announced it has received approval to convert its New York Department of Financial ... Continue Reading »
Orange Money Group and Visa announce a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating online payments and democratizing access to financial services across Africa and the Middle ... Continue Reading »
Coinbase, the leading publicly-listed firm for digital assets, and Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform, today announced the selection of Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as ... Continue Reading »
Standard Chartered and Coinbase announced today an expanded partnership on digital assets to explore the development of trading, prime services, custody, staking and lending solutions ... Continue Reading »
New research from Checkout.com reveals that Christmas 2025 will mark a turning point for agentic AI adoption, as consumers increasingly turn to intelligent digital agents ... Continue Reading »
Pension-finding platform, Raindrop has joined forces with some of the UK’s largest financial providers to track down over £1 billion in lost pension pot savings ... Continue Reading »
Scila AB, the Swedish fintech company delivering innovative solutions for market surveillance and risk management, today announces the appointment of Björn Westberg as its new ... Continue Reading »
Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, has signed a research partnership with Privy, the leading wallet infrastructure platform and a Stripe company, ... Continue Reading »
Today, we’re excited to share the next chapter in Valora’s journey. The Valora team will be joining Stripe, marking an important milestone in our mission ... Continue Reading »
smartTrade Technologies SAS (smartTrade), a global leader in multi-asset electronic trading and payments solutions, today announced the strategic acquisition of kACE Financial (“kACE”) — previously ... Continue Reading »
MassPay, a leading global payout orchestration platform, and Plasma, a company building vertically integrated stablecoin-powered products and infrastructure, today announced an integration that enables MassPay ... 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 Tchakenko, 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 »
“You only make a tiny sliver of money on digital payments. The real value lies before and after the transaction.” On #YoungTurksReloaded, Pine Labs CEO ... Continue Reading »
Kaspi.kz’s Strong Q3 Fintech Gains and “Pay by Palm” Innovation Might Change The Case For Investing In Kaspi.kz (KSPI) simplywall.st Continue Reading »
M23’s capture of Uvira, an economic hub of roughly 700,000 people near Burundi’s commercial capital has accelerated the eastern DRC conflict into a more overtly ... Continue Reading »
SBI Holdings Joins Amar Bank as New Shareholder, Strengthening Global Confidence in Indonesia’s Digital Banking Sector The Manila Times 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 »
Global commercial payments and financial platform Airwallex has captured fintech’s attention with its new funding round today. The Singapore-based company closed a $330 million Series G ... Continue Reading »
The year may be winding down, but fintech is still winding up. This morning brings news of Airwallex’s $333 million round, valuing the company at ... Continue Reading »
Agentic payments are on the rise this season, and digital identity platform Trulioo is stepping up to help protect agent-led transactions. The Canada-based company has joined Google’s Agent ... Continue Reading »
This week’s edition of Finovate Global features news from fintechs headquartered in Sweden. Klarna Brings Tap to Pay to 14 Markets in Europe Swedish digital ... Continue Reading »
Cross-border payments network MoneyGram is taking a step toward modernizing its global settlement infrastructure by partnering with Fireblocks to bring stablecoin-based settlement into its core ... Continue Reading »
A new partnership between ClearBank and Plaid will deliver faster, more secure, and friction-free Pay by Bank experiences for both businesses and customers throughout the ... Continue Reading »
Mental health startup founder allegedly tried to set fire at Bay Area winery before intentionally crashing Tesla San Francisco Chronicle Continue Reading »