ION, NEC and a host of private equity firms are in the running to buy Warburg Pincus’s 45% stake in Swiss fintech house Avaloq, according to Bloomberg.

The cloud simplifies and accelerates delivery of open banking standards, providing opportunities to improve awareness, transparency, and scale. Industry players would benefit by forging ahead with more effective and structured collaboration, facilitated by application programming interface (API) standardisation and shared customer data insights.

Amazon has unveiled an AI agent trained to independently perform actions, such as order and pay for things, within a web browser.

London-based Zango AI has raised $4.8 million to overhaul financial compliance systems with AI agents.

Leading the SustainableFinance.Live’s 2023 keynote session, Roxana Slavcheva, global lead for the built environment, World Resources Institute (WRI), dove right in to her session titled the ‘Role of AI in Decarbonising the Built Environment: An Urban Policy Perspective.’

Snoop, the money-saving app founded by former Virgin Money boss Jayne-Anne Gadhia, has called in bankers to explore a possible sale, according to Sky News.

A sovereign wealth fund led by Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman has launched a $24bn investment fund targetting the Middle East tech sector.

The European Banking Authority has authorised in-depth examinations at thirteen technology suppliers deemed as providing critical services to the financial services community.

Klarna has been fined Skr500 million ($50 million) by Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority, for anti-money laundering defects.

Technology veterans with stints at Stripe and Square on their CVs have raised $3.1 million for a new AI-powered wealth management platform.

Startup Grain has raised over $50 million to launch an AI-driven foreign exchange optimisation and hedging platform.

Bill Winters, the chief executive of UK bank Standard Chartered, has stated that nearly all transactions will be settled on the blockchain, eventually.

Barclays has joined forces with marketplace SaveMoneyCutCarbon to help its corporate clients reduce their carbon, energy and water use.

Investment Association (IA) data reveals that index trackers attracted £1.1 billion in inflows in June 2025 marking a strong continuation of momentum for passive investing, particularly in equity exposures across Europe and North America.

Capitalsing on consumer concern about climate change, fintech startup ekko has opened a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs for a new debit card that beds sustainability into every transaction