HSBC has responded to the recent round of tariffs kicked off by Donald Trump with a financing tool that helps US clients with the payment of import duties.

Four UK nationals have been sentenced for fraudulently obtaining and laundering bitcoin and other cryptocurrency worth tens of millions of pounds from an Australia-based cryptocurrency exchange.

A London-based digital asset financial services platform called BVNK has launched, promising to remove the barriers that prevent businesses and financial service providers from realising the benefits of cryptocurrencies.

UBS has invested in Lynk, an AI-driven ‘Knowledge-as-a-Service’ platform that the bank works with to help its institutional clients in their investment research.

Outward VC, a London-headquartered early-stage venture capital fund, has closed on a £51 million fund to back early stages founders operating on the intersection of fintech and connected sectors.

Agricultural challenger bank Oxbury is the first client for a new cloud-based core banking platform developed by low code outfit Naqoda.

The UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service is expecting more than 181,000 consumer complaints in the next year, driven in part by an increase in financial fraud and scams.