Samsung is offering the 75 million Galaxy phone owners in the US three months of free access to Coinbase One membership.

Mastercard, Bitget Wallet, and Immersve are launching a zero-fee crypto card that enables users to spend their crypto at more than 150 million merchants globally.

Deutsche Bank has signed on as Crypto.com’s corporate banking partner in Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong, with additional support and coverage to come.

Lloyds Banking Group has hired UX design guru Dan Makoski to fill a newly-created role as chief design officer.

What is the role of public and private investment in sustainable finance? How can green bonds and blended finance achieve sustainable development goals? These questions were answered in a sustainable policy panel, titled ‘Prudence, purpose, and profit; Balancing returns, impact, and risk’ at Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt.

The Financial Conduct Authority has filed its first criminal charges against an individual accused of unlawfully running multiple crypto ATMs without FCA registration.

Mastercard is in late-stage talks to buy crypto and stablecoin infrastructure platform Zerohash for up to $2 billion, according to Fortune.

Investor services technology provider SS&C Technologies has finalised its purchase of funds processing network Calastone, concluding one of the largest deals between investment management technology firms in recent years.

BNP Paribas Asset Management has launched a service that lets users access voice-activated market commentary and thought leadership through Amazon Alexa-enabled devices.

The financial services industry is already looking beyond Open Banking to the next phase of innovation, ‘Open X’, which will require deeper collaboration and specialisation, claims the latest World Fintech report from Capgemini.

El Salvador is to split its vast bitcoin reserves into multiple wallets to protect the holdings from a potential future quantum computing attack.

TSB chief executive Robin Mulloch has writtten to Meta demanding that the social media firm does more to protect consumers from fraud originating on its platforms.

European Supervisory Authorities have put together a report offering good practice guidance for financial education initiatives on scams, fraud and cybersecurity.