Billed as a game-changer for productivity, up to 90% off Klarna staff are now using generative AI daily, with non-technical groups such as Communications, Marketing, and Legal seeing adoption rates of 92.6%, 87.9%, and 86.4% respectively.
Turkey’s İşbank has opened an API portal, enabling third party developers to plug in and develop their own products and services.
ABN Amro is to offer customers a sustainability discount on mortgage interest rates for energy efficient homes.
Flash, an Egyptian startup offering cashless transactions to businesses via QR Codes, has closed a $6 million seed funding round.
Banking giant HSBC has invested $10 million in CloudBees, a US software delivery management system provider.
Gradient Labs, a startup creating AI agents for the financial services industry and founded by former Monzo alumni, has raised $13 million.
MasterCard is inviting UK coders, designers and developers to battle it out in a three day hackathon building payments-enabled travel apps for the chance to win £10,000.
HTX, a digital asset exchange, released their 2025 crypto outlook, reflecting on the key developments in 2024 and highlighting developments to watch in 2025.
Capitalsing on consumer concern about climate change, fintech startup ekko has set up a waitlist for a new debit card that beds sustainability into every transaction,
The Covid-19 crisis could spur innovative uses of technology, such as VR trading desks, in the financial services sector, according to Goldman Sachs CTO Atte Lahtiranta, who says the Wall Street giant has adapted smoothly to the lockdown.
Berlin-based banking-as-a-service platform Solarisbank has migrated its entire technology stack to Amazon Web Services as part of a plan to extends its business across new European markets next year.
Mastercard has led a multi-million pound pre-Series A funding round in Konsentus, a regtech startup focused on helping financial institutions be compliant with PSD2 open banking requirements.
UK robo-advisor Munnypot has secured its first white-label deal with Denmark’s Jyske Bank.
In conversation with Finextra, Beate Zwijnenberg, chief information security officer at ING, canvassed new trends in cybercrime and how the banking giant is working against phishing and scams for its customers.
At the Temenos Community Forum in Vienna earlier this year, Finextra interviewed Stewart Davies, Global SaaS commercial director at Temenos, and Mandeep Sidhu, global account manager GFS at AWS to discuss the event’s theme: ‘Engage and Grow in a Cloud World’.