The Payments Group (TPG), has become the first pan-European issuer of the Bluecode scheme, giving people across the continent access to a prepaid-based mobile payment alternative to Visa and Mastercard.
Coinbase has acquired crypto investment platform Echo for around $375 million in cash and stock.
Spanish bank BBVA ha rolled out a cloud-based system designed to automate the management of environmental data related to its buildings.
Ethical considerations should feature more prominently in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the investment management world, according to a recently published paper.
Barclays has made a “significant” investment in SaveMoneyCutCarbon, a digital aggregator that provides a marketplace where customers can shop for products and solutions that help reduce their carbon footprint.
A series of focus group events are slated to take place across Scotland to support the country’s plan to create more than 20,000 fintech-related jobs over the next decade.
The UK’s retail trading platform market has become more crowded following the launch of two separate US ventures.
Primary Portal, a digital platform that aggregates and digitises equity capital market processes for banks and asset managers, has completed the first stage of its £7.5 million Series A funding round led by the venture capital arm of Deutsche Börse.
Russia’s Tinkoff Bank is to sell the proprietary speech recognition software behind its chatbot Oleg to corporate customers.
Wealth management platform FNZ has made its second acquisition in a week, buying YieldX, a US-based provider of fixed income portfolio management technology, optimisation services and direct indexing tools.
Singapore-based DBS has launched a chat service that lets its wealth clients interact and transact with their relationship managers via WhatsApp and WeChat.
Big banks are facing challenges in innovating payments strategizing while keeping up with the pace of the industry. In an EBAday 2025 panel, leaders in banking explored what avenues incumbents are pursuing to revolutionise payments services.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing are rapidly changing the way payments services providers (PSPs) operate.
UK digital bank Monzo has added another two million customers in the last six months, bringing its total number of individual and business users to 14 million.
While almost all asset managers are already using artificial intelligence (AI) in their investment process, only a handful are using the tech for more advanced tasks, according to a recently published study.