With Donald Trump banning work on a digital dollar, a central bank survey suggests that while 75% still plan to issue a CDC, nearly a third have pushed back their issuance timeline.

The 2024 Financial Cloud Summit is set to take place on March 7th, 2024 at King’s Place in London.

Canadian bank CIBC is set to hire more than 200 data and artificial intelligence roles over the next 12 month

Cloud-native core banking provider Thought Machine has appointed former HSBC group chief operating officer Andy Maguire as chair.

Tenity, an early-stage investor in fintech and insurtech firms that has also built up an “innovation ecosystem”, has acquired Hackquarters, a startup accelerator with a strong presence in fintech.

A union representing Lloyds Banking Group employees is asking the Information Commissioner to investigate the lender’s use of staffers’ personal current account data as part of its pay negotiations.

JPMorgan is far and away the market leader in tackling the threats and opportunies for banks presented by advancements in quantum computing, according to research published by benchmarking platform Evident.

United Fintech, an outfit dedicated to hoovering up a stable of capital markets fintechs, has bought a 25% stake in Athena Systems, a US provider of investment decision support and automation software.

CommBank’s venture-scaling arm x15ventures has struck a talent-sharing and investment deal with fintech fund Tiple Bubble.

Brazilian fintech PicPay is looking to raise up to $500 million in a US initial public offering, according to Bloomberg.

Global investment manager BlackRock has announced the rollout of generative AI tools as soon as January in a bid to embrace the nascent technology.

Massachusetts-based PeoplesBank has enlisted cloud-based core banking provider Nymbus to help it launch a digital-only subsidiary called Zynlo.

Visa Europe has signed a deal to relocate its headquarters to Canary Wharf, leasing several floors at the iconic One Canada Square building.

Bank of New York Mellon has given dozens of AI agent ‘digital employees’ their own logins and will soon provide them with email accounts.

Taking to the stage on the second and final day of EBAday in Lisbon, Portugal were Erik Frantz, executive director, financial institutions – banks, CaixaBank; Roisin Levine, head of UK and Europe partnerships, Wise Platform; Rafael Linde, head, international development and global relationship management, Cecabank; Dean Sposito, head of institutional cash and trade finance, Western Europe, Deutsche Bank; and Gareth Lodge, senior analyst, payments, Celent, who moderated the session.