The UK arm of India’s HCL Technologies has agreed to buy Confinale, a Swiss digital banking and wealth management consulting specialist and Avaloq premium implementation partner. Financial terms were not disclosed.

TSB is to launch its first investment programme through a partnership with robo-advisor Wealthify.

Switzerland’s Temenos is looking to break into the Chinese market, having become the first core banking software provider certified with Huawei infrastructure and Huawei Public Cloud.

The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is looking at ways to access more data from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud amid concern about how important the three have become to the financial services sector, according to the Financial Times.

SC Ventures, the innovation, fintech investment and venture incubation arm of Standard Chartered, today announced the launch of a new digital banking technology solutions provider, audax Financial Technology.

The Swiss unit of Spanish bank BBVA is expanding its cryptocurrency custody and trading services to include USD Coin (USDC).

Cloud-based digital banking technology vendor Alkami has agreed to buy financial data analytics and transaction cleansing provider Segmint for $135.5 million in cash.

BBVA has received the green light from the Spanish Securities and Exchange Commission (CNMV) to provide custody and execution services for retail cryptoassets trading orders in Spain.

Acorns co-founder Walter Cruttenden has raised $20 million in Series A funding for his latest venture, Ant Money, and merged it with another of his fintech firms, Blast.

Japan Exchange Group (JPX) is looking into the issuance of “digitally tracked green bonds” as a way of raising funds for its carbon neutrality ambitions.

Irish innovation outfit NDRC has partnered with Bank of Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, Mediolanum and State Street to establish a ‘pre-accelerator’ programme for financial services startups at the very earliest stages of their development.

Genesis has agreed to pay a $21 million civil penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the unregistered offer and sale of securities.

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has created a sandbox to test groundbreaking technology for the digital asset industry.