Mastercard has launched an AI-based design tool to help issuers create payment cards with the click of a button.

Thursday marked The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) dismissal of their lawsuit initiated on 14 January 2025, suing Capital One, and its parent holding company, Capital One Financial Corp for cheating millions of consumers out of more than $2 billion in savings account interest.

Atom bank announces today at Sibos in London that the mobile-only bank will be shifting from third-party data centres to Google Cloud in order to keep pace with digitally savvy customers and offer new services.

Digital wealth management platform and online broker Scalable Capital has doubled client assets over the past 12 months to hit a high water mark of €10 billion in assets under management.

The US Department of the Treasury is seeking public comment on the risks and opportunities posed by the use of AI in financial services.

Digital lender VersaBank is embarking on an internal US tokenised deposit pilot programme.

On Sunday, US President Trump announced the creation of a “US Crypto Reserve” on Truth Social.

In July 2025, the US passed the GENIUS Act, making it the first federal regulatory system for stablecoins, and laying down groundwork for stablecoin innovation in the banking and retail sectors.

The Nordic region has been at the vanguard of innovation across payments for decades, but is that the case in 2024? NextGen Nordics 2024 – a leading conference led by Finextra Research held in Stockholm on 23 April 2024 – will procure an answer to this question from experts hailing from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Ripple has partnered with leading universities across Europe for its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) program to catalyse academic research in blockchain development and encourage a new generation to engage in crypto innovation.