Business travel platform TravelPerk has raised $200 million and acquired Swiss AI-powered spend management outfit Yokoy.

Coinbase is adding Singapore dollar stablecoins to its platform through a tie-up with licenced issuer StraitsX.

Financial crime prevention platform Themis has raised £7.25 million in scale-up funding.

Google Pay has received a revamp to make it easier for shoppers to see card benefits, use BNPL on more sites, and ditch CVV codes in favour of biometrics at checkout.

Crypto exchange Kraken has acquired Capitalise.ai, an Israel-based supplier of no-code, natural-language trading and analytical tools.

In January and February 2025, AIB saw a sharp increase in reports of phone call fraud, with overall voice phishing, or vishing, increasing by 79% compared to the same two months in 2024.

AI-powered SMB credit advisor startup Charm Solutions has raised $3.5 million in a seed round led by BootstrapLabs.

New APP fraud reimbursement rules implemented by the Payment Systems Regulator could lead to around a quarter of victims being denied refunds warns UK bank TSB.

13th January 2019 marked one year since the UK embarked on its Open Banking experiment. Despite the inevitable teething problems, the initial signs are encouraging, as banks up their game in the face of strong competition from innovative third party products and services.

Financial technology entrepreneurs are being invited to pitch to take part in a London-based programme that will see them get assistance and advice from, and exposure to, executives at major banks and venture capital companies.

The card scheme-owned EMVCo technical body has begun looking into how global specifications can support the coming surge in AI agentic payments.

Hot on the heels of its arrival in the US, Santander’s Openbank digital offering has landed in Mexico.

Financial crime consultancy Plenitude has acquired Contineo Financial Risk Solutions, a provider of technical advisory services for regulatory compliance operations.