RetailBook, a platform that enables retail investors to participate in primary capital market transactions on the same terms as institutional investors, has secured a £4.5 million funding round led by Augmentum Fintech,

Shares in Shawbrook rise more than six per cent on the specialist lender’s first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange.

Digital investing platform Webull is planning to go public via a $7.3 billion merger with a blank-cheque firm.

The FCA has issued its first fine for transaction reporting failures under MiFir regulations.

The FCA is inviting Expressions of Interest from potential providers for a UK equity consolidated tape in an effort to boost liquidity in fragmented capital markets.

Commerzbank has become the first full-service commercial bank in Germany to be awarded a crypto custody licence.

Israel-based Vesttoo, which uses artificial intelligence technology to connect the insurance industry and capital markets, is laying off 75% of its staff amid a growing scandal over the alleged use of a fraudulent letter of credit in a multi-billion dollar insurance transaction.

A $120m investment led by asset manager TPG has seen the valuation of Tide, the UK-based business management platform, reach $1.5bn

Social media app X will roll out investing and trading services “soon” and is also pondering its own debit or credit card, claims CEO Linda Yaccarino.

Clearstream is to offer clients a choice between digital and tokenized issuance of securities with the launch of a blockchain-based system operating over Google Cloud.

JP Morgan will pay $100 million to settle a CFTC probe that concluded the bank failed to properly monitor billions of client orders between 2014 and 2021.

Aquis Exchange and Cboe Europe are forming a joint venture to line up a bid to run the new European Union’s equity consolidated tape.

Neeraj Kapur has over 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles across retail, corporate and SME banking.

Financial markets infrastructure provider TP Icap has acquired data company Neptune Networks and joined forces with nine investment banks to create a dealer-to-client credit business. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The UK government is promising bespoke support for financial technology firms as they start, scale and list as it vows to make the country the “fintech capital of the world”.