The introduction of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in 2022 marked a pivotal shift, requiring financial institutions to bolster their ability to withstand and recover from a range of cyber and operational disruptions. The upcoming NextGen Nordics 2025 event at the Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden, on 29 April 2025 promises to be a unique platform for banking professionals and industry leaders to explore how DORA is reshaping the financial ecosystem, focusing on operational resilience, cybersecurity, and the future of innovation in the sector.

Envestnet is selling its open finance and data analytics unit Yodlee to private equity firm STG. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Bank of America is warning customers of a data breach following a security breakdown at Infosys McCamish Systems, a provider of services for deferred compensation plans at the bank.

Giant hedge fund administrator Citco has migrated $1 trillion worth of assets under administration onto the cloud with AWS.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have developed a blueprint for a platform that integrates regulatory and climate data to help financial authorities identify, monitor and manage climate risks in the financial system.

A host of banking and capital market players – including Swift, the DTCC and UBS – have closed out the second stage of a Chainlink-led project to use AI and blockchain technology to standardise and streamline corporate actions processing.

PayNearMe, a fintech targeting non-commerce businesses and their customers, has secured $50 million in Series E funding from Atlantic Vantage Point.

Visa and Mastercard are bidding to close a long running battle with US retailers over interchange fees with a promise to trim charges and let merchants have freedom of choice over which cards they have to accept.

Finextra’s annual sustainable finance event, Sustainable Finance.Live, will return this year on 4 November 2025 in London.

Italian bank UniCredit has begun market tests of a new biometric payment system that uses infra-red sensors at the POS terminal to recognise the geometry of the veins in the palm of the user’s hand.

The majority of global financial institutions are actively implementing agentic AI in order to improve their compliance operations, according to research from Fenergo.

Simple co-founder Shamir Karkal has taken the wraps off his latest project: Sila, a startup offering fintech firms a suite of APIs and developer tools supported by a dollar-pegged stablecoin.

JPMorgan’s blockchain unit Kinexys is working with Singaporean bank DBS to develop an interoperability framework for tokenized deposit transfers across various types of blockchain networks.

Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed the acquisition of London-based fintech Curve.

Monument, a digital banking startup for the well-heeled, has landed £28 million in new funding from existing backers and a trio of angel investors.