Klarna has launched an agentic product capabable of scouring the internet to surface products and prices for discovery by AI agents.

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has agreed a deal with digital investor communications platform Proxymity, that will enable retail investors in the UK to participate in proxy battles.

Celent and Icon Solutions research released on the first day of Sibos 2022 has revealed that payments processing will soon no longer be perceived as a commodity, but instead as a business opportunity.

The chief technology officer of Tide has addressed concern by its customers that the platform does not offer multi-user access to its accounts.

Some very interesting narratives have emerged over the course of 2018 through Finextra’s reports, most of which we expect to progress into increasingly diverse and innovative discussions during 2019.

Market data is the lifeblood of financial institutions (FIs) with banks, brokers, wealth managers, asset managers and hedge funds relying on quality pricing and trade-related data to power their business applications. But today customers expect to access to data on their personal devices and FIs are stepping up their digital transformation game.

The euro-denominated stablecoin joint venture backed by 10 major banks has gotten a name and leadership structure as it works towards a launch in the second half of 2026.

Leeds and London will be home to a new UK centre for driving global green finance and investment, thanks to £10 million in government investment.

The Bank of England has hit UK payments operator Vocalink with an £11.9 million fine after it missed a deadline to fix problems in its risk management framework.

Goldman Sachs is opening up access to its financial data resources and analytics to third party institutions via Amazon Web Services Data Exchange initiative.

Wiktor Schmidt, the founder and CEO of Netguru, argues that banks will fail, not because of the economy, but because they can’t attract and retain developer talent.

The Bank of England and Accenture have rebuilt and modernised a core component of the payments infrastructure in the UK, marking a major milestone of a multi-year transformation programme.

Plumery, a component-based banking technology startup founded by Ben Goldin, former CTO and CPO of Mambu, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding.

Monument, a new digital-first UK bank for the mass affluent, is heading for a 2021 launch after securing a Series A investment and restricted banking licence from UK regulatory authorities.

Boston-based Eastern Bank has partnered with former members of PerkStreet Financial to create a new innovation laboratory that will use the bank’s data assets to rapidly prototype and launch new technologies for use within the bank and onsale to other financial institutions.