The UK government-backed Tech Nation has picked 20 early-stage startups to join its new fintech programme, promising to give them intensive backing to help grow their businesses and the country’s financial technology ecosystem.
Banking-as-a-Service player Synctera has raised $18.6 million in a Series A extension co-led by Lightspeed and Fin Capital.
Barclays Bank is to work with Commonwealth Bank of Australia on the development of open source tools for analysing large data sets in an effort to break free from the tyranny of vendor licensing fees.
Owners of the new Fiat 500 electric car will be rewarded for eco driving with free cryptocurrency that can be spent at a dedicated online marketplace.
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Ryan Salame, a former executive at collapsed crypto outfit FTX, has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.
Barclays Bank has become latest financial institution to invest in United Fintech, an umbrella outfit dedicated to scooping up a stable of capital markets, wealth management and wholesale banking vendors.
Zaion, a French provider of conversational AI for banking chatbots, has secured an €11 million fundraising round led by 115K, La Banque Postale’s venture capital fund.
Following a recent commitment by Nato countries to invest 5% of their GDP to defence, global banks are backing a new bank that is being set up to support Nato countries and their allies finance their defence needs.
The number of UK banks investing in technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality is falling as the Metaverse hype fades away.
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Fintech giant Revolut is rolling out in-app calls to help retail customers quickly expose impersonation scams.
The UK Government has confirmed plans to abolish the Payment Systems Regulator, slashing red tape in a bid to boost economic growth.