ZA Bank has launched banking services for stablecoin issuers, in part of their ‘Banking for Web3’ initiative.

Finextra Research will be hosting its second annual Financial Cloud Summit on March 7th 2024 at King’s Place in London.

Spain has been struck by a widespread outage across all mobile networks just four weeks after suffering from a nationwide electricity blackout, highlighting the perils of relying solely on online payment systems and apps.

Australia’s government is prepping legislation that would require buy now, pay later providers to carry out basic credit checks on new customers.

AI-powered anti-money laundering, screening and fraud prevention outfit Hawk has raised $56 million in a Series C funding round led by One Peak.

Citi and Deutsche Bank have offered up a new round of open source contributions to nonprofit Finos (Fintech Open Source Foundation).

ANZ is investing in a new security capability designed to detect mule accounts being used to receive funds from scam victims and other criminal activities.

Westpac NZ’s venture capital fund has led a $1.4 million investment round in Kiwi open finance startup Akahu.

Goldman Sachs is the first financial service player to sign up to a new Green Software Foundation founded by Microsoft, Accenture, GitHub and ThoughtWorks.

Mastercard has launched a cloud-native, real-time payment gateway designed to ease access for institutions connecting to the UK’s Faster Payments network.

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, JPMorgan Chase has followed a host of other US banks in quitting the Net-Zero Banking Alliance.

Visa has launched its ‘Tap to Add Card’ service in Ukraine, Georgia and South Africa, enabling cardholders to add their bank card to their mobile wallet by tapping their card against their mobile phone.

Australian Payments Plus (AP+) and the Australian Banking Association (ABA) have completed the design specs for a new national Confirmation of Payee service, providing another layer of protection against scammers.

ABN Amro is to axe almost a quarter of the workforce over the next three years in an effort to boost profitability under its new CEO

HSBC is preparing for the ongoing revolution in banking, highlighting six new types of jobs that will be necessary to forge a career in a digitally-enabled financial services industry.