The UK government has launched a new body for training prospective coders in order to address an increasing digital skills gap.

Finextra will be hosting its fifth annual Sustainable Finance Live conference to take place on November 29th. The event will be hosted both online and in-person at Events @ No 6 in Aldgate, London.

DNB and Danske Bank have invested EUR5.2 million in Nordic API Gateway, a data sharing utility launched by account aggregation and budgeting app Spiir.

EBA Clearing has recruited nine banks from six countries to undertake data model training for a new fraud fighting feature for account-to-account and instant payments.

Mizuho Bank has begun proof-of-concept trials of Digital ID based on device location and facial recognition to improve online banking authentication and ongoing customer due diligence.

Revolut is rolling out dedicated crypto payment cards for spending on everyday items.

US money transfer giant MoneyGram has responded to the UK Post Office’s decision to terminate a long-term relationship between the two following a cyber security incident.

Barclays has rolled out automated policy management and compliance technology from regtech Clausematch to 90,000 employees around the world.

Starling Bank has launched an in-app call indicator to protect customers from bank impersonation scams.

WealthKernel, a provider of digital investment services and infrastructure, has secured an investment of £6 million in a Series A extension round led by ETFS Capital.

ANZ is following through on its promise to shift to agile methodologies in IT development by adding Jeff Smith – the man who, as CIO, led the agile charge at IBM – to its international technology advisory panel.

Digital wealth management platform and online broker Scalable Capital has rolled out investor access to cryptocurrencies via regulated stock exchanges in Germany.

Japanese technology giant Fujitsu is to conduct trials into the use of generative AI (gen-AI) for banking operations.

UK lawmakers says proposals to hand responsibility for scam reimbursement to a body sponsored by the banking industry are “fundamentally flawed”.

A series of tough questions greeted a room of just-arrived attendees to AFP in Nashville, Tennessee before the keynote address from Malcolm Gladwell who delved into weighty matters, exploring anecdotes and examples from his new book Revenge of the Tipping Point.