Digital investment advisory firm MoneyFarm is looking to bridge the gap between the impersonal world of the robo-advisor and the confidence-building connection achieved via a human intermediary by opening its first pop-up shop in Milan.

Asset manager Standard Life Aberdeen has, to widespread mockery, decided to change its name to Abrdn to reflect a “modern, agile, digitally-enabled brand”.

Accounting, admin, and banking software platform Ageras has made its eighth acquisition in Dutch payroll company Employes.

Raoul Herborg, managing director, central bank digital currency (CBDC) solutions at Giesecke and Devrient (G+D) spoke to Finextra on their release of a recent survey on CBDC progress worldwide, and what we can expect from CBDCs in the coming years.

Nordic payments processors Nets is to hire 50 software engineers to staff a new digital payments hub in Finland.

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United Fintech, an umbrella outfit dedicated to scooping up a stable of capital markets, wealth management and wholesale banking vendors, has made its seventh acquisition to date, buying out commercial lending platform Trade Ledger.

UAE-based fintech SaaS platform Kema has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Speedinvest.

Brighty, a Swiss digital finance platform for crypto-card payments, has secured $10 million in funding from Futurecraft Ventures to expand its presence in Europe and the UK.

Revolut is looking to raise a new funding round that would give it a $65 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times.

The law passed by Congress in the US has opened up the potential of crypto payments, spurring Citigroup to explore custody and payment services for stablecoin.

Bank of Ireland is warning of a surge in investment fraud, describing it as the most concerning trend in evolving scam tactics.

The vast majority of banks (94%) believe that the Covid-19 pandemic has turned the payments market into a technology arms race for which they are unprepared.

TrueLayer will now offer Deutsche Bank, Sparkassen, Commerzbank and other major German banks direct access to financial data following the first international move for the European API provider.

Asia could account for almost half of global fintech transactions by the end of the year as it continues to outpace other regions, according to recently published research.