Microsoft Brazil, 7COMm and Chainlink are to work with Banco Inter on a trade finance application as part of the second phase of the central bank’s trials of its digital currency, Drex.

Keeta Network, a high-performance blockchain that connects Web3 and traditional financial systems, aims to be a real-world tokenisation and financial interoperability frontrunner by working with Solo. Solo turns data into reusable, verified credentials, enabling banks, fintech firms and cryptocurrency platforms to make smarter, faster decisions, without compromising privacy.

European spend management platform Pleo has worked with Mastercard to launch an embedded finance offering that helps businesses managing large networks of SMB customers to offer real-time financial intelligence via spend and cash management capabilities directly from their own platform.

In this age of the customer when banks are leveraging the cloud to reduce costs, innovate faster, minimise risks and digitise mission-critical services, it’s become clear that technology drives change at a ground-breaking rate.

Dozens of financial services job roles will see much of their work taken by data analytics and automation in the next few years, according to a new report from Singapore, which is preparing for the radical workforce shift with a new career training programme focused on emerging technology roles.