Former Google and Standard Chartered executive Diana Layfield has been appointed CEO of UK digital bank Monzo, taking over from TS Anil, who is stepping down after five years in the role.

UBS has signed a multi-year contract with GitLab for the supply of a single cloud-based DevOps platform for use by the bank’s software team.

Regulation and policy can be an important step sustainable transactions at a global level. There are many different perspectives on how to help implement these regulations within the financial services, which this Sustainable Finance Live session covered.

Payments giant Stripe and corporate spend management player Brex have unveiled products that bring stablecoins closer to the mainstream.

The Bank of England has issued a call for interest to third party technology providers and financial institutions in order to explore mechanisms for implementing synchronised settlement in the renewed Real-Time Gross Settlement service.

American investment management giant Vanguard has joined forces with the University of Toronto (UofT) to set up several labs focused on the use of AI in financial services.

Allfunds, the UK-based B2B WealthTech platform, is to list on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange.

Stepping up its fight against scammers, Westpac has introduced real-time Confirmation of Payee security features for consumer and small business customers.

Morgan Stanley has become the first top tier US bank to commit to measuring greenhouse gas emissions fueled by its loans and investment products.

Singaporean digital wealth management firm Syfe has closed a SG$40 million Series B funding round.

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has reported there were approximately 3.6 million consumer and retail fraud incidents in 2024, a 19% rise for the same period in 2023.

Natwest is installing ‘reverse vending machines’ where people can recycle their old credit and debit cards.

Guernsey’s last locally-based bank ceased trading in 1996, making Bank Aston the first to be licensed by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) for almost thirty years.

JP Morgan is making an equity investment in, and providing a debt facility to, AI-led business-to-business payments platform Slope.

More than 40% of British businesses are keen to integrate open banking into their operations citing the potential benefits of increased security and fraud prevention, but many are held back by lack of understanding, according to a study from NatWest.