Hands-In, a payments startup that lets groups split the cost a basket at online checkouts, has raised $550,000 from a host of industry players.

The Payments Group (TPG), has become the first pan-European issuer of the Bluecode scheme, giving people across the continent access to a prepaid-based mobile payment alternative to Visa and Mastercard.

Spanish bank BBVA ha rolled out a cloud-based system designed to automate the management of environmental data related to its buildings.

Ethical considerations should feature more prominently in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the investment management world, according to a recently published paper.

Barclays has made a “significant” investment in SaveMoneyCutCarbon, a digital aggregator that provides a marketplace where customers can shop for products and solutions that help reduce their carbon footprint.

A series of focus group events are slated to take place across Scotland to support the country’s plan to create more than 20,000 fintech-related jobs over the next decade.

Primary Portal, a digital platform that aggregates and digitises equity capital market processes for banks and asset managers, has completed the first stage of its £7.5 million Series A funding round led by the venture capital arm of Deutsche Börse.