Payments infrastructure platform Finix, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round led by Silicon Valley VC Sequoia.

Lloyds Banking Group has invested £10 million in digital identity company Yoti, marking its second fintech investment of 2023.

MonetaGo is ditching blockchain for a shift to the cloud after almost a decade of using distributed ledger technology for its trade finance fraud prevention product.

Deutsche Bank is to shutter a “mid-double-digit number” of branches while investing in telephone and video channels for providing personal advisory services to customers.

For the sixth year running, EBAday hosted a dedicated Fintech Zone, where 16 cutting-edge fintech startups from across Europe and beyond pitched their proof of concepts and working products on the exhibition floor in Lisbon, Portugal.

It’s the second day of Temenos’ annual conference on the banks of the River Liffey in Dublin. Stay tuned for more on the latest in banking transformation and digital disruption, not to mention the Innovation Jam final.

Icelandic challenger bank indó has signed with Finnish technology provider Enfuce, which will provide the foundational tech for payments, open banking and sustainability services.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that the global summit on the safety of artificial intelligence (AI) will be hosted at the historic Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, where Alan Turing and a group of codebreakers cracked the Enigma code during World War II.

Clove, a UK wealth management startup co-founded by the former boss of fintech unicorn Paddle, has emerged from stealth with $14 million in pre-seed funding.

The founders of earned wage access giant DailyPay have unveiled a new venture, called Salt Labs, providing a rewards platform for hourly workers.

Routefusion, an Austin-based financial infrastructure provider that helps platforms and FIs embed cross-border payments and multi-currency account capabilities, has raised $26.5 million in Series A funding.

The UK government has begun a procurement process to find an open banking technology supplier for use with its Universal Credit social security payments.

Ikigai, the wealth management and banking app for affluent millennials, has raised almost £2 million in a crowdfunding campaign via CrowdCube to accelerate its product roadmap and tech team.

UK bank Lloyds has teamed up with travel technology platform Hopper to let customers book flights and accommodation directly from its app.

German fintech GreenBanana has launched a platform that connects retailers with buy now, pay later providers in more than 25 countries.