Swift and Visa have moved to strengthen the connectivity between their networks in a move designed to streamline international B2B payments.

CaixaBank has launched a generative AI-based agent to help users of it mobile banking application learn details about products, compare the different available options, and choose which one best suits their needs.

Revolut has kicked off a recruitment drive for 400+ roles in Western Europe after announcing plans to invest more than $1 billion to establish a new HQ in France over the next three years.

Financial technology lovers will make their way to the Level39 site in London’s Canary Wharf later this month for a day-long hackathon organised by Open Bank Project parent Tesobe.

Global Payments continues to simplify its business, agreeing to offload its payroll unit to fintech Acrisure for $1.1 billion.

Having co-founded a gaggle of challenger banks, serial entrepreneur Anthony Thomson is launching an “acceleration partner” to help scale fintech startups.

Youtility, a London-based startup tapping into Open Banking to help people track their household expenses and switch utility suppliers, has raised £4.5 million in a funding round joined by Barclays.

TSB and FinTech Scotland have opened applications for startups to join their annual Innovation Labs programme, dangling the prospect of a full-scale commercial rollout across the UK bank’s customer base.

Amid a challenging fundraising environment, London VC 13books Capital has closed a new £121 million fund to invest in the founders building tomorrow’s fintech businesses.

Standard Chartered has announced the official opening of its virtual bank in Hong Kong

Stripe has opened an App Marketplace housing up to 50 third party business apps from vendors like like DocuSign, Dropbox, Intercom, Mailchimp, Ramp, and Xero.

Trading app Robinhood has agreed a $300 million cash and stock deal to buy custodial and portfolio management platform TradePMR.

Africa-based startup Tehanu has completed its first ‘interspecies money’ transfer, which enables the transfer of funds through digital wallets associated with the conservation of Rwandan mountain gorillas.

NatWest is to run an eight-week pilot of an app which calculates customer carbon emissions as they spend.