The founder of crypto exchange Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, has been sentenced to four months in prison in the US after pleading guilty to violating anti-money laundering requirements.

The European Central Bank is inviting expressions of interest from financial market stakeholders in participating in trials of new technologies for wholesale central bank money settlement.

Israeli multi-asset investment platform eToro has confirmed a filing for an IPO on Wall Street.

Global investment in fintech bounced back strongly in the first half of 2021, hitting $98 billion with a record number of deals, according to KPMG.

As it opens its new global headquarters in Canary Wharf, fintech giant Revolut has pledged to invest £3 billion in the UK, creating 1000 new high-skilled jobs over the next five years.

Software engineers at ANZ Bank saw a “notable boost” in productivity and code quality when using the GitHub Copilot AI tool.

Revolut will launch its payments platform in India later this year, targeting 20 million customers in the country by 2030.

BX Digital, a subsidiary of Boerse Stuttgart, has received conditional approval from Swiss market regulators to operate a blockchain-based settlement system for digital assets.

Blockchain-enabled B2B payments company Paystand has acquired cross-border stablecoin payments network Bitwage

Covid-19 has landed, unforeseen and unwanted. Communities across the world are now taking extraordinary measures to contain its threat.

Cloud-based core banking provider Nymbus has raised $12 million in a financing round led by major shareholders Insight Partners and Vensure Enterprises.

ACI Worldwide has bought technology assets from RevChip and TranSend to boost its UP Merchant Payments offering with new cloud-based, omni-channel in-store capabilities.

Investors in N26 are working to remove the German digital bank’s founders as co-chief executives after regulator BaFin once again identified risk management failings at the fintech, according to the Financial Times.

Stablecore has raised $20 million for a platform that helps community and regional banks and credit unions offer stablecoins, tokenized deposits and digital asset products.

Ripple has signed a deal to deliver crypto-enabled cross-border payments to African money movement firm Chipper Cash.