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Banking and Fintech

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Banking and Fintech

LHV Bank names CEO

UK-based digital banking app LHV Bank has appointed former NatWest executive Damian Thompson as its chief executive officer and executive director.

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

Latvia enters EU fintech race

Latvia is making a push for EU fintech hub status in a battle with fellow Baltic states Lithuania and Estonia.

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Bahrain central bank to treble tech budget

The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) plans to increase its investment in technology by threefold over the next three years as part of a plan t…

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Pepkor's $1.3bn fintech deal comes under shareholder scrutiny

South African retailer Pepkor is facing complaints from directors and investors over a deal to merge its fintech arm with a rival company.

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Banking and Fintech

OCR Studio and FinOn partner for payments onboarding

OCR Studio, a developer of identity document verification and bank card scanning solutions, and FinOn, a provider of modular payment infras…

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Banking and Fintech

FIS launches agentic AI suite for the office of the CFO

Banking technology vendor FIS has built an agentic AI suite designed to help CFOs manage collections, liquidity, risk and cash flow.

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Banking and Fintech

Sibos 2026: Trust and collaboration at 'machine speed' needed to fight banking industry threats

Sibos 2026 in Miami featured several 'Big Issue Debate' sessions, but one with an unwieldy name captured the attention of many attendees: '…

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Banking and Fintech

Investment research spend flatlines despite AI advancements

Substantive Research, the research and market data discovery and pricing analytics provider, today publishes the findings of its latest sur…

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Banking and Fintech

AvaTrade to acquire majority of FXCM's business

AvaTrade, a leading global online trading broker, today announced it has agreed to acquire the majority of FXCM Group’s business, one of th…

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Banking and Fintech

ING opens flagship store in Madrid

ING has inaugurated its new flagship in Madrid, a space that reflects the evolution of the bank in Spain, where it now serves more than fou…

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Banking and Fintech

Amex hit with $350m penalty for AML deficiencies

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the main banking regulator in the US, has issued a $350m civil money penalty against A…

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Banking and Fintech

Nivo launches AI assistant for lending

Nivo has today launched Lender Collect, an AI assistant that coordinates a lending case from the first broker email through evidence gather…

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Banking and Fintech

Anyflo emerges from stealth to simplify stablecoin payments for enterprises

Stablecoin payments orchestration service Anyflo has emerged from stealth with news that it has acquired bitcoin lending platform Native.

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Banking and Fintech

Mastercard to enable offline payments across Europe

Mastercard is introducing offline payment requirements that mean that from 2027 Europeans will be able to pay during power and network outa…

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Banking and Fintech

TrueLayer raises $27m to scale Pay by Bank

European Pay by Bank network TrueLayer has raised $27 million in investment led by Italy's CDP Venture Capital.

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Banking and Fintech

Singapore central bank issues risk rules on banks' AI use

Banks in Singapore must seek an independent review of any forthcoming AI projects before implementation, according to new rules.

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Banking and Fintech

Nasdaq Ventures invests in One Trading

Nasdaq Ventures has made a strategic investment in European derivatives and digital assets exchange One Trading.

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Banking and Fintech

US Bank rolls out identity, privacy and credit monitoring service

US Bank has introduced a service to help customers monitor and take action when credit, identity and privacy risks are found on the dark we…

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Banking and Fintech

Noah raises $38m for stablecoin payments platform

Stablecoin payments infrastructure provider Noah has closed its seeding round after pulling in $38 in funding.

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Banking and Fintech

Goldman Sachs appoints bankiong tech co-head

Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs has named senior tech bank executive Jane Dunlevie as its new co-head of the technology, media and telecommu…

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Banking and Fintech

JPMorgan Chase extends lead as world's most AI-advanced bank

JPMorgan Chase has extended its lead as the world's most artificial intelligence-advanced bank, once again topping the Evident AI Index.

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Banking and Fintech

Revolut eyes Philippines bank licence

Digital bank Revolut is considering the Philippines as the next market in its global expansion plans

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Banking and Fintech

DNB to lay off 400 and expand use of AI agents

Norway's biggest bank, DNB, is set to lay off 400 staff in its technology teams while it increases its investment in AI agents.

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Banking and Fintech

ANZ completes cross-border tokenised deposit payment with Swift ledger

Australia's ANZ has carried out a live corporate treasury transactions using tokenised deposits and Swift’s blockchain ledger.

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Banking and Fintech

APAC consumers show appetite for stablecoin

Almost half of consumers in Asia Pacific would be willing to use stablecoins in the next five years, according to recently published resear…

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Banking and Fintech

CaixaBank establishes new AI and data division

Spanish financial services firm CaixaBank has created its first AI and data division in a move designed to accelerate the bank's digital tr…

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Banking and Fintech

Community finance and open banking technology can support ‘credit invisibles’ – Salad Finance

People with low credit, whether due to a missed payment or a period of financial insecurity, are often disproportionately punished by the f…

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Banking and Fintech

Lloyds survey reveals 71% of UK FIs believe tokenisation will reshape financial services

Lloyds' 10th annual Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey, conducted between April and May 2026, showed that 71% of the 100 senior leader…

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

BMO and Mastercard enable corporate card clients to manage virtual card payments

BMO and Mastercard today announced the availability of a new embedded Commercial payments capability that enables eligible Corporate Card c…

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Banking and Fintech

Australia's WeMoney launches AI and open banking-powered lending assessment service

Australia's WeMoney has launched an AI-powered lending assessment service built on the country's Consumer Data Right.

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