Programmable money startup Pave Bank has moved out of stealth with a $5.2 million funding round and a digital commercal banking licence in Georgia.

Banking technology vendor nCino has struck a definitive agreement to acquire UK-based SaaS regtech platform FullCircl for $135 million in cash.

The Avalanche Foundation has launched a physical and digital credit card that lets users make purchases against the value of their crypto assets anywhere Visa is accepted.

A much anticipated report from the US Treasury on regulatory reforms for the fintech sector is set to recommend the use of regulatory sandboxes and fintech charters at both a state and federal level.

A new digital financial services provider, called Ethos, has launched in the UK to offer Shariah-compliant services to Muslims.

An increasing number of financial institutions are reconstructing the structure of their internal risk cycles and ESG reporting to align with ILAAP and ICAAP guidelines. Looking at the future of risk reporting in finance, head of model risk governance at Metro Bank, Suresh Sankaran discussed ESG data and risk in his Keynote: What is the role of risk in greening finance and financing green?

Microsoft has struck a ten-year tranformational deal with the London Stock Exchange (LSEG) to deliver cloud, data analytics and workspace products across the exchange operator’s entire technology architecture.

NatWest is to embed a free carbon footprint tracker within its mobile banking app to help customers reduce the climate impact of their spending.

Flex, a fintech that helps business owners automate their back offices, has acquired Maza a fintech app aimed at Spanish-speakers in a $40 million deal.

Based in Central Asia, digital banking provider TBC Uzbekistan is a subsidiary of London-listed TBC Bank Group.

Digital wealth manager Nutmeg has announced that it has surpassed £3 billion in assets under management following a record 72% year-on-year growth.

Moderating her second panel of the day – Fraud prevention and AML: the need for behavioural biometrics in this instant age – Finextra’s senior reporter Niamh Curran spoke to Megan Heald, senior project manager at NICE Actimize, John Sam-Kubam, senior vice president at Crown Agents Bank, Beju Shah, head of Nordic centre at the Bank of International Settlements, and Robert Woods, director international market planning and financial services SME at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions.

Monzo co-founder and Y Combinator partner Tom Blomfield has kicked up a stir by tolling the death knell of the humble software engineer, claiming that AI will soon be “provably and obviously better at basically every facet” of coding.