Swedish open banking outfit Tink has purchased the aggregation platform of UK firm OpenWrks in a bid to further expand its European presence.

Fidelity National Financial has been hit by a “cybersecurity incident” that forced it to block access to systems, leading to business disruptions.

Bitcoin’s price dipped on Thursday as markets were left underwhelmed by an executive order from President Donald Trump creating a strategic reserve made up of the cryptocurrency already owned by the government.

Donald Trump has vowed to prevent the creation of a central bank digital currency if he wins the US presidential election, calling a digital dollar a “dangerous threat to freedom”.

During the past two days, 16 early stage, early growth fintech startups from across Europe and beyond pitched their proof of concepts or working products on the exhibition floor of EBAday 2023 in Madrid, Spain.

Mastercard has begun piloting its Crypto Credential network, enabling cross-border peer-to-peer digital asset transactions between Latin America and Europe.

Robinhood says the Securities and Exchange Commission is ditching its investigation into the trading app’s crypto arm.

Payment firms have reacted with disappointment to the news that a plan promoted by the G20 to make cross-border payments more efficient is set to miss its first deadline.

Ahead of our NextGen Nordics conference on 27 April 2022, we will be putting together a weekly briefing of selected top stories that are emerging out of the region and setting the blueprint for payments innovation across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

Shares in Shawbrook rise more than six per cent on the specialist lender’s first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange.

Citi has teamed up with Swiss post-trade group SDX in a bid to develop tokenisation for private market assets.

In his annual letter to shareholders, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has singled out the “critical impact” of AI and the “essential” importance of migration to the cloud.

Klarna has moved to boost its in-store presence in the US, bringing its BNPL payment options to 100,000 merchant locations though a deal with Fiserv’s Clover point-of-sale business.

A new app for freelancers, called Puulse, has launched in the UK and Europe, providing free advance payments for gig workers experiencing a productivity lull.

US-based investment bank and global custodian BNY has agreed a deal with OpenAI, the creator of generative AI platform ChatGPT, to help with the development of the bank’s proprietary AI platform Eliza.