Voice cloning scams – where fraudsters use AI technology to replicate the voice of a friend or family member – could be set to catch millions out, according to new research from Starling Bank.

Guests at a party hosted by a cryptocurrency firm chaired by former UK chancellor Philip Hammond were served sushi off the bodies of half-naked models.

UK data sharing outfit TrueLayer is to open an office in Australia as it seeks to take advantage of the country’s forthcoming move to Open Banking.

Japan’s Zerobank Design Factory (ZDF) is set to start offering the cloud-based banking system it developed for sister company Minna Bank to the wider market.

Europe’s largest retailers have banded together to press the European Commission to crack down on fees charged by Visa and Mastercard.

British financial regulators have fined Citigroup £61.7 million over a $444 billion fat finger error that led to a $1.4bn sell off of equities in European markets.

Pave Bank has raised $39 million in funding to scale what it calls the first “programmable bank” built for digital assets and the AI era.

In two expert panels at IFGS 2025, speakers considered how geopolitical tensions are impacting the global fintech industry, and strategised how the UK can lead the space.

Swedish PFM platform Tink has launched an API developer portal providing access to financial data from more than 300 banks in a single API.

EQ Bank, the digital arm of Canada’s Equitable Bank, has moved its entire core banking system to the cloud.

When moving to the cloud, meeting all risk, legal and compliance requirements is non-negotiable. The key question regulators are asking financial services providers is whether they have identified the operational risks associated with migrating to cloud computing, and if banks understand the process of managing these obstacles.

Canadian fintech Neo Financial has raised C$110 million in equity and another C$250 million in debt to fuel its efforts to take on the country’s big five high street banks.

Standard Chartered’s venture arm has sold its incubated startup Solv to Indian B2B commerce marketplace Jumbotail.

Circle Internet Financial, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO).

MasterCard is advertising for software engineers graduating in 2014 to work in a new mobile e-commerce technology lab in New York City.