Trading venue CME Group has revealed more about its plan to introduce tokenisation services via its link up with Google Cloud

As challenger banks continue to mature, gain market share, and power increasingly larger portions of the SME community, the lines between traditional and new players have become blurred. The question ‘How will the challengers continue to challenge?’ was answered by industry experts today at IFGS 2025.

Finextra Research has released its latest global survey report Payments 2030: What’s shaping the future?, revealing how organisations are aligning their payments strategies with market and regulatory demands, the challenges they face, and the technological and operational shifts shaping investment decisions.

MiniPay and Noah have joined forces on non-custodial stablecoin payments that connect global banking rails with local payment methods.

Lloyds Banking Group is building on its AI strategy with the appointment of Aritra Chakravarty from Jiffy.ai as head of agentic AI.

Citi has signed an agreement with BlackRock to manage $80 billion in assets for Citi Wealth clients managed by Citi Investment Management (CIM).

NextGen Nordics, Finextra’s annual payments event, kicked off on April 23 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden, bringing together an array of experts and leaders in the Nordics payments industry.

Nationwide Building Society is working with Accenture and A2A platform provider Form3 to transform its digital payments infrastructure through the adoption of a cloud native platform.

Evidence suggests that centring operations around customers rather than focusing on products improves user experience and generates revenue. The cloud can help incumbent banks digitise operations that are structured around siloed, on-premises systems, data and processes, and enable them to become customer-centric.