The FCA and PSR boards have announced the appointment Alison Potter as chair of the FCA’s Regulatory Decisions Committee (RDC) and the PSR’s Enforcement Decisions Committee (EDC).

NatWest has signed a five-year deal with Amazon Web Services and Accenture to consolidate its customer data streams into a single, bank-wide data platform, enabled by AI.

Sweden’s SEB has begun experimenting with mob programming – putting an entire team of developers at the same computer at the same time to work on the same thing.

Rabobank is to hold a fintech hackathon in Utrecht with the winning team scooping a EUR5000 cash prize.

Qardy, the operator of a digital lending marketplace in Egypt and the Mena regions, has secured a $7-figure pre-Seed round of investment with participation from White Field Ventures and Vastly Valuable Ventures.

The afternoon of the first day of EBAday kicked off with the panel ‘How new technologies are transforming banking’ in breakout room 2. Panelists Cal Corcoran, vice president and global head of banking at Microsoft, Simone Lofgen, managing director of payments platforms at Commerzbank, Andre Martins, head of banking innovation and open finance at NTT Data, and Simone Satan, global head of digital market management and treasury services at BNY Mellon discussed AI, cloud computing, and innovative automation technologies being used to transform the payments industry in a session moderated by Graeme Jeffrey, partner at Bain & Company.

JPMorgan Chase has shut down Capital Connect, the platform it launched in 2022 to help startups link up with VC investors.

UK high street bank NatWest has teamed up with European software vendor Vodeno Group to launch a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) business for the UK market.

Leading up to Finextra’s annual green conference, Sustainable Finance Live, which will take place at Events@No6 on October 8 in London, keynote speaker and founder of ResponsibleRisk Richard Peers interviewed Robin Millington, CEO of Planet Tracker.

Ashley Alder, FCA chair, has been accused of revealing the identity of an internal whistleblower despite the regulator’s policy to protect their identity.

Credit Suisse has called in outside experts to help find the source of a leak that exposed the details of accounts held by wealthy clients allegedely involved in torture, drug trafficking, money laundering, and corruption.

NatWest has reached an agreement with WTW, a global advisory and brokerage company, to acquire the UK bank’s 85% stake in workplace savings and pensions fintech Cushon.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is exploring whether to ban Brits from using credit to buy cryptoassets.

Revolut is aiming to become the most valuable start-up in Europe with a target valuation of $40 billion, the FT reports.

Singapore’s DBS Bank is to launch a startup accelerator in Hong Kong in partnership with local innovation incubator Nest.