Wyzr, a fintech startup developing an AI CFO product for small businesses, has raised £400,000 from a Dragon’s Den-style pitch event held by NatWest.

The Bank of England is building out a cloud-based data and analytics platform after an independent review found “nervousness” in adopting the technology.

Intesa Sanpaolo has backed up its recent contract with Thought Machine by investing £40 million in the cloud-based core banking vendor.

Sweden’s SEB is going all-in on Google Cloud, accelerating a shift that will bring a raft of new products to retail and corporate customers based on data, analytics, and AI.

The European Council and European Parliament have reached an agreement on amending the existing payment services directive (PSD2) that they say will step up the fight against fraud and increase transparency.

Sustainable Finance Live is back for another virtual event. Finextra and Responsible Risk have come together for a thought-provoking series of experiential events, welcoming banking and technology ecosystems to collaborate on enabling a wave of change.

Mastercard has connected its Multi-Token Network (MTN) to JPMorgan’s Kinexys Digital Payments rail for B2B cross-border payments settlement.

Bank of America is launching a fintech accelerator that aims to attract entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities.

Barclays has followed HSBC in withdrawing from the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), claiming that the departure of a host of other global lenders means the organisation “no longer has the membership to support our transition”.

Lloyds says the barcode cash paying-in app feature it launched in August has already been used to pay in over £3 million at PayPoint high street locations.