Two ex-Revolut employees have raised $2.3 million in pre-Seed funding to build Bleap, a self-custodial stablecoin app with an accompanying debit card.

Lloyds Banking Group is building a new machine learning (ML) and Generative AI (GenAI) platform using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.

The FCA has told financial firms to do more to ensure politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their families are not treated unfairly.

It’s been a busy year for the Finextra TV team, posting 251 video interviews with leading industry figures during the course of 2018. Here are the top five by viewing figures.

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order paving the way for Americans to add alternative assets such as private equity, cryptocurrencies and real estate into 401(k) retirement saving plans.

UBS has signed a ten-year carbon removal agreement with direct air capture firm Climeworks.

Shares in Temenos fell by around 14% on Friday after the Swiss core banking vendor’s CEO Jean-Pierre Brulard departed with immediate effect.

Little more than a year after launch, UBS is shutting down its SmartWealth digital wealth management platform for non-super rich Brits and selling off the technology to US robo-advisor SigFig.

Singapore’s fintech sector enjoyed a mixed year in 2022, with a record level of activity but a significant drop in the level of funding, according to recently published data.

Shares in British business-to-business cross-border payments firm CAB Payments more than halved after the company revised revenue guidance sharply downwards.

Temenos CEO Jean-Pierre Brulard opened this year’s Temenos Community Forum (TCF), in Madrid, Spain, with an impassioned speech focused on customer and partner gratitude.

The Bank of England (BoE) intends to prioritise AI, DLT, and quantum computing as the three “cross-cutting technologies” with the most potential for “transformative outcomes”.

An Israeli startup has secured $26m in series A funding to build what it claims is the world’s first one million qubit quantum computer contained within a single cryostat.

Rabobank has unveiled an online platform that connects large corporates looking to offset their emissions with smallholder farmers in developing countries who are sequestering carbon through agroforestry.

A record 94.6% of all eligible in-store card transactions in the UK were made using contactless last year.