Samsung has teamed up with Splitit to let users of its mobile wallet use their existing credit to split in-store payments into instalments.

Financial services giant State Street is one of the first firms to sign on for Amazon Web Services’ new AWS Backup, a fully-managed, centralised service to automate backups of data and meet regulatory requirements.

Mastercard has unveiled a suite of open banking applications and services designed to help financial institutions and third party providers make the most of the PSD2 era.

Banco Santander has used bespoke, in-house developed software to digitise its core banking platform, already migrating 80% of its IT infrastructure to the cloud.

UniCredit is upgrading all its debit, credit and pre-paid cards with features designed by Mastercard for blind and partially sighted people.

US Bank has launched an alternative to buy now, pay later schemes with the roll out of a credit card that automatically splits purchases into a three-month payment plan.

French IT services and consulting company Capgemini is claiming an industry-first after releasing its perpetual KYC (pKYC) sandbox.

Years after being forced to abandon its crypto project, Meta is in talks with digital asset firms about integrating stablecoin payments into its platform, according to Fortune.

Standard Chartered Bank is stepping deeper into the stablecoin space through a strategic partnership with StraitsX, a Singapore-licensed stablecoin issuer, to strengthen the reserve management of its US Dollar and Singapore Dollar stablecoins, XUSD and XSGD.

BNPL provider Sezzle has sued Shopify, alleging that the e-commerce marketplace has been stifling competition on its platform.

Ripple has been ordered by a US judge to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission $125 million in penalties for improperly selling its XRP token to institutional investors.

In an interview with Finextra, ForgeRock’s VP of financial services and regulatory, Nick Caley reveals that both PSD2 and Open Banking have created a template that other countries are looking to mimic by implementing standards in Europe.

AllUnity, a joint venture between asset manager DWS, market maker Flow Traders, and blockchain firm Galaxy, has been granted an E-Money Institution (EMI) licence by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)

USD Coin issuer Circle has secured conditional Digital Asset Service Provider registration from French authorities and appointed JP Morgan and PayPal veteran Coralie Billmann to spearhead its operations in the country.

Goldman Sachs is looking to bring in more than 100 coders to help automate swathes of its trading business, according to Bloomberg.