NatWest has launched a digital carbon planner to help UK businesses manage their future fuel and operational costs, and grow greener.

AI-powered financial crime detection specialist ThetaRay has acquired screening company Screena. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Climate-tech startup Greenspark has raised £1 million in a seed funding round led by Fuel Ventures.

Stripe is teaming up with Alphabet, Meta, Shopify and McKinsey to commit $925 million to spur the nascent carbon removal sector.

The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (Austrac) has ordered the local unit of crypto giant Binance to appoint an external auditor over “serious concerns” about money laundering controls.

At this year’s Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference, research vice president and agenda manager Bob Gill from the advisory firm suggested that banks in need of improving customer experience must look at what the big tech players are doing.

Following UBS’s takeover of Credit Suisse earlier this year, Swiss consumer pricing supervisor has put the bank under observation amid competition concerns that could bring about higher loan charges.

In an attempt to grow the use of the cashless economy, operator of Nigeria’s most used mobile wallet PalmPay has partnered with African e-commerce giant Jumia.

Two Asia-based fintechs, Line Next and Kaia, have launched what is described as a stablecoin superapp, designed to facilitate cross-border payments.

India’s Icici Bank has opened an online marketplace comprising nearly 250 APIs for third party developers to connect to and communicate with the bank’s applications.

Rekord, a Dublin-based startup building an AI-native orchestration platform for credit decisioning, has raised $2.1 million in pre-seed funding.

Monument Bank has partnered with Firenze, a fintech offering Lombard lending to wealth managers.

The first Pan-African card scheme has launched in a move designed to bolster the continent’s financial sovereignty.

Coinbase is resurrecting a long-buried protocol for sending payments over the Internet to create an agentic payments layer that requires no human intervention.

Poland is to become the European testing ground for a new biometric checkout programme from Mastercard, using a fusion of facial and iris recognition.