Reapit, the UK’s largest estate agency platform, has joined the IPN Consortium, a gaggle of industry players developing a distributed ledger technology-based system that lets customers go through the entire home buying process through their mobile phones.

West Brom Building Society has called in Deloitte and core banking provider 10x for a digital overhaul.

Madrid-based treasury management startup Embat has acquired Necto, a US bank API connectivity specialist. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Fiserv has signed a definitive agreement to buy StoneCastle Cash Management. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Late Thursday afternoon Akamai reported a problem with its Edge DNS service, resulting in outages at thousands of websites.

Online payments firm Checkout.com has acquired Estonian software development firm Icefire, adding 110 engineers to its team. Financial terms were not disclosed.

AbbeyCross, a wholesale FX platform focused on improving the payment market infrastructure for emerging market currencies, has raised US$6.5 million in a seed funding round.

UK-based fintech Wise has continued its push into the Indian market with the planned launch of what it claims is the Asian nation’s first ‘travel’ card.

Scams impersonating businesses and government officials cost Americans $2.95 billion last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

Crooks stole $2.2 billion in cryptocurrency in 2024, with hackers associated with North Korea accounting for $1.3 billion, according to a study from Chainalysis.

The digital asset unit of French lender Societe Generale has listed its newly-minted Euro-based stablecoin on crypto exchange BitStamp.

Existing point-of-sale terminals in the UK could be used to initiate digital pound payments, according to research from the Bank of England.

The founder of an AI-based tool for automating online shopping checkouts has been charged with defrauding investors over claims that the process was actually carried out by human workers in the Philippines.