Just in time for Christmas, NatWest has launched a board game, ‘All Mod Cons’ to educate the public about top modern scam techniques.

Wells Fargo has signed major Cloud deals with Microsoft and Google as part of an overhaul of its digitial infrastructure.

JPMorgan Private Bank has invested in two Swiss fintech firms that provide software to help advisors build portfolios for wealthy clients.

Finextra spoke to Adam Webb, COO, Risk at ICBC Standard Bank, ahead of Sustainable Finance Live about his experience in risk management and mitigating climate risk.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says it will take action to ensure Apple opens up restrictions on fintechs offering their own digital wallets on iPhones.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved rule changes in support of ethethereum ETFs, setting up the potential launch of 8 exchange traded funds.

Tred, a UK startup building a carbon tracking debit card and app, has bust through its initial £600,000 crowdfunding target within ten minutes of going live on Crowdcube.

PE firm Permira is buying a majority position in BioCatch in a deal that values the Israeli behavioural biometrics company at $1.3 billion.

TreeCard, the provider of a wooden Mastercard debit card that channels profits from merchant surcharges into reforestation programmes, has raised $5.1 million in a funding round led by EQT Ventures

National Australia Bank is exploring the use of biometric tracking of keystrokes and phone handling as part of a suite of initiatives to clamp down on fraudulent payments.

Block is adding real-time bitcoin payments to its Square point-of-sale terminals.

In a roundtable discussion held Wednesday in London hosted by digital payments firm PPRO, industry leaders met to explore the impact PSD2 has imposed on key players in Open Banking and the changes needed to achieve the regulation’s objective in 2020 and beyond.

Money launderers and their mules are switching away from current accounts to savings accounts in a bid to bypass stringent bank checks brought about by APP reimbursement rules and AI-based anti-fraud tools.

The number of bank, credit union and building society branches in the UK has fallen by more than a third over the last five years.