Lynx, a Madrid-based firm using AI to detect and prevent fraud and financial crimes, has raised $!8 million in Seres A funding.

The Bank for International Settlements says it multi-central bank CBDC platform, Project mBrige, is ready to accept value added products and new use cases as it reaches minimum viable product stage (MVP).

Money transfer behemoth Wise is to move its primary listing to the United States, in a fresh blow to the London Stock Exchange.

The senior vice president of ESG engagement at Moody’s believes the key to driving demand for ESG investments lies in alternative data, of the like used by hedge funds managers and venture capitalists and not generally available in traditional data sets, such as financial statements.

MasterCard has unveiled MasterPass, a digital service that lets customers use any card or enabled handset to shop online and in the real world.

Months after striking a deal with Microsoft to become a ‘cloud-first’ bank and migrate all core applications to the cloud by 2025, Bill Winters, group chief executive of Standard Chartered joins Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft at Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 to discuss resilience, the future of digital transformation and why a good partnership is central to achieving this.

A Binance executive detained by Nigerian authorities last month has escaped, according to local media reports. Meanwhile, the West African country has charged the cryptocurrency exchange with a host of tax evasion charges.

Blackbird AI, which develops AI-driven narratives for risk management, has raised $20m in a series B funding round.

Goldman Sachs is weighing the potential to build an external cloud platform for use by other financial institutions, according to a memo seen by Yahoo Finance.

BBVA and Visa are letting customers use their iPhones’ AI-powered Image Playground feature to personalise their payment cards.

Global asset manager Schroders has acquired a minority share in Forteus, an asset manager focused on blockchain and digital assets.

Global asset manager Franklin Templeton has set its sights on penetrating the millennial investment market by recruiting a fintech from the gaming sector to help it build a digital wealth management platform.

Research into a dark web database of six million global card details showed only America and India had more payment data stolen than the UK.

Keep, an all-in-one financial platform for small businesses, has emerged from stealth with C$33 million in equity financing to build a Canadian Brex.

Visa has unveiled its plans for two of the next big things in payments: agentic commerce and stablecoins.