World, the crypto biometric project fronted by OpenAI boss Sam Altman, has released a revamped version of its app with support for US dollar virtual accounts and a host of stabelcoins.

The Canadian government has launched a public consultation on the merits of Open Banking as it seeks to gauge consumer enthusiasm for sharing financial data with third parties.

The code that powers Deutsche Bank’s DWS mobile investment app is being released to the open source community on GitHub.

The FIX Trading Community and Global Digital Finance have formed a joint working group with the aim of connecting buyside trading desks with the world of tokenized assets

US investment advisory firm Facet has raised $35 million in a funding round led by Multiplier Capital.

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The European Central Bank has selected UK-based deep tech company Fluency to run intiatives in programmable and offline payments for the digital euro project.

As fraudsters gear up to take advantage of the Christmas period, NatWest has launched an advent calendar designed to educate Brits on the threat of common purchase scams.

US Bank is the latest large financial institution to team up with an automated investment platform to provide online financial advice to wealth management clients, forming an alliance with BlackRock-owned FutureAdvisor.

Tokenisation of money has many benefits, but also poses economic, legal and technical challenges that must be addressed if it is to fulfil its potential, says the Bank for International Settlements.

Developers are now able to tap into the potential of PSD2 and open banking with no prior core banking experience and leverage open APIs to build retail banking applications. Anand Subbaraman, VP and general manager of retail banking, at Finastra believes that the potential for open APIs is limitless, and we are now in the fourth generation of banking.

Thirty one UK scaleups have been selected to participate in the third cohort of Tech Nation’s fintech programme.

Kashet, a Swiss-UK-based private banking startup, has come out of stealth mode after raising £5.4 million in an initial funding round.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance released a staff statement on 27 February 2025 clarifying that meme coins are not considered securities.

Citi, Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Börse have joined a $15 million Series B funding round for collateral and margin management outfit CloudMargin.