Japanese financial conglomerate SBI is building a commercial framework for cross-border distribution of tokenised securities with pilots in fixed income and asset and weath management.

Researchers from the UK’s National Health Service have identified a possible unexpected benefit of the rise in contactless payments: fewer children are turning up at hospitals after swallowing coins.

Shield, a neobank startup using stablecoin payments to make life easier for global trade businesses, has raised $5 million in seed funding.

Alternative investment platform iCapital is boosting its technology team with 100 hires in the US and Portugal.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched a supervisory climate risk stress test to assess how prepared banks are for dealing with financial and economic shocks stemming from global warming.

The Lithuanian central bank has appointed an independent supervisor and restricted new business for local paytech Kevin after losing patience with the firm for repeated failings to file its annual reports.

National Australia Bank (NAB) is to commit AUS$2bn ($1.38bn) to support Australia’s technology sector.

Research among 15,000 consumers conducted by ING finds that only two percent would trust a fully automated robo-adviser to invest their money on their behalf.

BBVA is entering a three-year project with the University of Navarra to address the main ethical, technical and regulatory challenges posed by artificial intelligence.

With the accelerating pace of transformation in financial services, day two of SOFE 2019 explored the direction of travel financial institutions should embark on in order to thrive in this new world.

Research by Gartner identified 25 “must-know” emerging technologies across three key areas which it predicts will greatly impact business and society over the next two to ten years.

Ziglu, the UK-based digital banking and crypto platform, has launched Crypto on Card, a new feature enabling customers to spend their cryptocurrency in real-world transactions using their Ziglu debit card.

The BIS Inovation Hub and the Bank of England have developed a prototype analytical tool to unlock the richer payments data derived from the ISO 20022 payments messaging protocol.

Join Finextra at our inaugural London event next month to redefine the role of AI in financial services.

Santander has inked a deal with OpenAI, rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise to nearly 15,000 staffers as it bids to become an “AI-native” bank.