MIT has recruited TD Bank and Prudential to sponsor its first-ever fintech hackathon.

Open banking platform Tink is working with subscription technology firm Youtility to provide UK retail banks with embedded subscription and money management tools.

UK Banking-as-a-Service bank Griffin is opening up access to a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, providing a way for AI agents to autonomously perform tasks on behalf of customers.

Dutch fintech Fero has launched their personalisation e-commerce tool, Checkout Companion, for Shopify-based businesses in the UK.

Personal payroll and benefits fintech Catch is shutting down after admitting it is not the one to topple a “trillion dollar ecosystem”.

A new research paper, produced by Finextra in association with EPAM, explores the rise of robo and asks how it will further reshape the advisory business and wealth management in the future.

Starling Bank has added digital investments from Wealthify to its in-app marketplace, enabling customers to open investment accounts with as little as £1.

Australia’s CommBank is turning the table on scammers, launching a fleet of thousands of AI-generated bot profiles to engage with and disrupt criminal networks fleecing consumers.

Latin American accounts receivable SaaS platform Toku has raised $48 million in a Series A funding round led by Oak HC/FT.

Fintechs wanting access to banks’ customers’ data may have to pay for the privilege, according to a report from Bloomberg on US bank JP Morgan.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has joined forces with Fujitsu and the Japan Research Institute (JRI) to trial the use of AI to scan for bugs in coding and automatically recommend software repairs.

Mastercard has struck a deal to buy threat intelligence specialist Recorded Future from private equity form Insight Partners for $2.65 billion

Carbon accounting platform Greenly has launched a climate rating system to monitor decarbonisation in companies.