Fidelity Investments is in advanced stages of testing its own stablecoin, which is designed to act as cash in cryptocurrency markets and will be managed through its digital assets arm.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency says “highly sensitive information” was accessed in a hack on its email system.

Mastercard has unveiled a set of tools designed to make it easy for people to manage how they share their financial data with third parties.

Welcome to Finextra’s live coverage of FusionONE 2019. This two-day event is Finastra’s first major developer conference, which will see hundreds of developers from fintech companies and banks taking part in a deep dive into FusionFabric.cloud tools and infrastructure.

Spain’s Banco Sabadell is inviting third party developers to generate fresh ideas for mobile banking through an ‘Open Apps’ innovation programme, with an ATM location application for Google Glass first off the production line.

Mexico City-based AI-powered platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) Kapital has raised up to $100 million in a Series C funding round that doubles the firm’s valuation to $1.3 billion.

A team of Australian geeks have rigged up an ATM to play popular shoot-’em-up action game Doom.

The Linux Foundation has announced plans to user AI-enhanced open source analytics and open data to tackle climate risk and opportunity.

Stablecoin payments infrastructure firm BVNK has launched an embedded wallet that unifies fiat and stablecoin payments globally.

A gang of pro-Russian hactivists have claimed credit for a series of attacks on the IT systems of banks and financial institutions across Europe.

Klarna has raised $639 million in a funding round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 that values the buy now, pay later juggernaut at $45.6 billion.

Revolut and Visa have filed legal challenges against the Payment Systems Regulator over the UK watchdog’s decision to cap interchange fees on cross-border online payments, according to the Financial Times.

At IFGS 2025, the panel discussion ‘The great wealth transfer: wealthtech’s time to shine’ focused on the evolving nature of wealth management, and how digitalisation, personalisation, and creative partnerships are key to scale up wealthtechs.

Cloud-native platform Temenos has amplified their partnership with Wipro to support banks of all sizes speed up their modernisation journeys and expand go-to-market strategies in regions such as the UK, US, and Australia,

Sustainable Finance Live 2024 will kick off of Tuesday 8 October at Events@No6 in London. Finextra’s annual sustainable event will have interactive workshops, stimulating panel sessions, and a dynamic hackathon.