In uncertain times, Lunar Bank is targeting beginner investors with a straightforward, stripped-down stock-trading platform in collaboration with fellow Danish bank Saxo.

Mastercard is to create over 1500 jobs in Dublin over the next three-to-five years, with the opening of a new tech campus in Leopardstown.

JP Morgan has struck a deal to buy cloud-native payments technology firm Renovite Technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Payments giant Worldpay has struck a deal to buy AI-native enterprise fraud prevention platform Ravelin. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The European Central Bank is warning banks that their management of outsourcing risk must improve, with a stringent focus on the processing of personal data.

The UK’s Financial Ombudsman has fielded a 35% surge in customer complaints about requests for reimbursement over scam thefts being denied by Revolut.

Visa is introducing a ‘trusted agent protocol’ to protect merchants from malicious bots when transacting with AI agents.

At EBAday 2024 in Lisbon, Finextra’s own Niamh Curran moderated a lunchtime session titled ‘Rising Stars’, with Luca Kotton, platform owner at Investec Bank; John Salter, chief customer officer at ClearBank; Jenny Winther, head of payment schemes at Handelsbanken; and Phoebe Zhou, head of emerging payments, GPS Europe at HSBC, discussing success and industry newcomers.

NatWest has launched a digital carbon planner to help UK businesses manage their future fuel and operational costs, and grow greener.

AI-powered financial crime detection specialist ThetaRay has acquired screening company Screena. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Climate-tech startup Greenspark has raised £1 million in a seed funding round led by Fuel Ventures.