15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank looks to deepen its use... read more

15 Oct 26 @ 19:37

The Bank of England and International Monetary Fund have issued unusually stark warnings over the systemic threat posed by cyber attacks, arguing that a serious incident affecting payments or access... read more

15 Oct 26 @ 19:36

Stablecoin payments provider Noah has secured both a MiCA crypto-asset service provider licence and a PSD2 payment institution licence, giving it a regulated framework to offer stablecoin and fiat payment... read more

13 Oct 26 @ 20:13

The next phase of stablecoin competition may be decided less by who issues digital money and more by who controls access to customers. Recent moves from SAP and Samsung point... read more

13 Oct 26 @ 20:11

Latvia is intensifying efforts to position itself as a leading European fintech centre, seeking to compete more directly with neighbouring Lithuania and Estonia for companies looking for a base inside... read more

13 Oct 26 @ 20:10

FIS has launched a new agentic AI suite aimed at helping finance teams manage collections, liquidity, credit risk and cash flow from a single intelligence layer. The Agentic Insights Suite... read more

11 Oct 26 @ 17:42

Mastercard is introducing new offline payment requirements across Europe from 2027, allowing cardholders to continue making essential purchases during internet or power outages. From February 2027, all newly issued Mastercard... read more

11 Oct 26 @ 17:41

American Express National Bank has been fined $350m by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency after regulators identified significant weaknesses in its anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act... read more

11 Oct 26 @ 17:40

Banks and securities firms across the UK and European Union are entering the final year of preparations for the move to T+1 settlement on 11 October 2027, with regulators and... read more

08 Oct 26 @ 20:03

Plaid is expanding its use of AI across lending, fraud detection and payments, with a new generation of models designed to interpret financial behaviour over time rather than rely on... read more

08 Oct 26 @ 20:02

ANZ has completed a live cross-border corporate treasury transaction using tokenised deposits and Swift’s blockchain-based ledger, in a test aimed at showing how digital money could move between banks without... read more

08 Oct 26 @ 20:01

Mollie has launched a new version of Pay by Bank built on GoCardless’s open banking infrastructure, marking the first major product to emerge since the two companies combined earlier this... read more

06 Oct 26 @ 17:07

New merchants are particularly vulnerable to fraud during their earliest months of trading, with fresh analysis from Fraudio showing that 10.5% of newly observed businesses experienced at least one fraudulent... read more

06 Oct 26 @ 17:06

Citi has launched multi-market instant payments through Swift, allowing bank clients to reach several domestic real-time payment systems through a single account structure and existing Swift connectivity. The service is... read more

06 Oct 26 @ 17:06

HSBC is preparing to launch a Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin under the HSBC RedCoin brand, beginning with retail payment use cases before expanding into corporate and institutional applications. The bank... read more

05 Oct 26 @ 06:36

Tokenisation is moving rapidly from experimentation towards mainstream financial infrastructure, with Lloyds’ latest Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey showing growing conviction that digital assets will materially change how money and securities... read more

05 Oct 26 @ 06:36

Some of Europe’s largest domestic payment schemes are joining forces to create a new cross-border network designed to reduce the continent’s reliance on US-controlled card infrastructure. Bancomat, Bizum, the European... read more

05 Oct 26 @ 06:35

Barclays is extending its use of Anthropic’s Claude AI models across software development, customer support and operational processes as the bank looks to modernise legacy technology and improve efficiency. The... read more