Mastercard and bunq have announced their partnership to create an open banking and AI tool at Money 20/20 Europe.

The European Card Payment Association (ECPA) has called for a strong stance on payments soveriegnty across the bloc amid ongoing geo-political turmoil and fall out from Trump tarrifs.

Standard Chartered is working to turbo-charge its Open Banking capabilities, opening a third party developer portal, inhouse test lab and developer academy.

The markets business of UK bank NatWest is rolling out a data science and machine learning platform from AI specialist Dataiku, with the goal of deepening collaboration between technical staff and front office users.

Phoenix-based business bank Western Alliance has notified customers of a data breach caused by a zero-day vulnerability in third party file transfer software.

Lloyds Banking Group is reviewing staff performance metrics with the aim of axing chronic underperformers.

The European Payments Council is seeking Directory Service Providers to help with checking routing algorithms that may be used by Verification of Payee (VoP) scheme participants.

Finextra’s annual sustainability event, Sustainable Finance Live, will return on Tuesday 8th October at Events@No6 in London.

Ahead of its FusionONE open banking developer conference this week, Finastra has revealed its new FusionFabric.cloud platform for mortgage and loan workflows, deepening its partnership with Microsoft. The vendor has also contracted with nbkc bank to build a conversational banking app on the platform, and released some 61 new APIs to the developer community.

Citi is teaming up with Coinbase to bring digital asset payment capabilities to the Wall Street giant’s institutional clients.

Lloyds Banking Group and Nationwide have joined an £11 million Series A funding round in Scottish AI fintech Aveni.

A report by Stripe and Finch Capital has found that VC investments in embedded finance doubled between 2020 and 2021 across Europe and North America.

Startupbootcamp is inviting fintech geeks to take part in a 48-hour, payments infrastructure-focussed hackathon in London next month.

Marqeta has launched a new recycled card initiative to offset its plastic footprint.

Temenos has launched a GenAI co-pilot for its retail banking core product, enabling banks to test and launch new products faster.