The UK arm of Santander has added a free savings and investment calculator to its website to help customers compare the potential returns on their money.

Capital markets tech house Scivantage is teaming with Hoboken’s Stevens Institute of Technology to launch a fintech incubator programme promising capital, IT support and guidance to successful entrants.

Total UK fintech investment dropped to $12.3 billion in 2023, down 34% from $18.7 billion in 2022, according to KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech, a bi-annual report on fintech investment trends

Australian bank Westpac is adding a security layer for online payments as it seeks to address record customer losses to scams.

Rewards credit card startup Yonder has secured £12.5 million in equity and a £50 million credit line to scale operations.

NCR Voyix has entered an agreement to sell its cloud-based digital banking business for $2.45 billion in cash to Veritas Capital.

Motive Ventures is to take over the running of ABN Amro’s Venture Fund (AAV), consisting of 15 early-stage fintech startups.

National Bank of Canada is paying C$103 million for a majority stake in Flinks, a Montreal-based data aggregation startup.

BNPL giant Klarna has priced its IPO at $40.00 per share, providing an elevated valuation of $15 billion.

Block will pay a $40 million penalty to New York regulators for “significant failures” in anti-money laundering programme and virtual currency compliance failures on its Cash App platform.

Jürgen Schaaf, an economist and advisor to the European Central Bank’s Market Infrastructure and Payments division, says more support should be provided for properly regulated euro-denominated stablecoins to ward off the threat posed by US dollar-backed tokens.

Younited, a Paris-based credit and payment platform, has raised $170 million in a funding round joined by Goldman Sachs and Bridgepoint.

NatWest has agreed a deal with vendor Pexa to start carrying out digital remortgage deals from next year.

Standard Chartered is rolling out a new mobile and online banking service to serve one million clients across eight African markets as part of a three-year $1.5 billion commitment to a digital future.

Asoka Woehrmann, the chief executive of Deutsche Bank subsidiary DWS, has resigned after German law officials stormed its offices over claims that the company exaggerated the sustainable credentials of some of its financial products.