A viral TikTok scam earlier this month saw more than $17 million withdrawn from ATMs in New York in just three days.

London-based buy now, pay later firm Zilch is launching a physical card as part of a partnership with Visa.

London-based online real estate investment platform BrickVest has been bought by German outfit Patrizia. Financial terms were not disclosed.

At IFGS 2025, the panel, titled ‘The road to net zero: clear and decisive, or bumpy and long?’ gathered perspectives from climate finance experts on how navigating sustainable decisions require nuance amid rising complexity.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has recommended the expansion of the use of non-cash collateral through the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) by its Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC).

Stackup, a digital asset management platform designed to help crypto businesses streamline their operations, has secured $4.2 million in seed funding.

Coinbase is targeting India and the Middle East after investing in Mumbai-based crypto exchange CoinDCX at a $2.45 billion post-money valuation.

Emirates NBD’s digital banking unit Liv has added cryptocurrency trading to its mobile banking app.

Westpac has trained 800 engineers on the use of generative AI tools to speed up software development.

Spanish banking giant Santander has vowed to hire 3000 IT professionals worldwide this year as it pushes on with its digital transformation plan.

Deutsche Bourse is to accelerate the migration of its workloads to the cloud after closing a deal with Microsoft for its cloud services over Azure and office collaboration tools.

Nationwide is to set up a dedicated cyber security training programme for new technology employees in partnership with cyber skills builder Capslock.

The European Central Bank has bemoaned the absence of an EU challenger capable of taking on the might of Big Tech cloud providers from the US.

Citi and US Bank customers will be the first to get access to Mastercard’s agentic payments technology ahead of a global rollout.

The lifting of restrictions by German wathdog BaFin on N26 has led to a surge in demand that has helped the digital lender to record its first quarterly profit.