In the opening plenary of Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, executives at Swift and leading German banks Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Bank introduced the themes of the conference and what can be accomplished on ‘the next frontier of global finance’.
Finextra will be hosting its inaugural Financial Cloud Summit conference on 2nd March 2023 in-person at King’s Place in London.
Visa has launched a hub to help issuers and fintechs deliver commercial payment and embedded finance experiences.
2023 saw a 94% decline in funding for Irish fintechs, according to recently published research.
The European Central Bank is inviting expressions of interest from financial market stakeholders in participating in trials of new technologies for wholesale central bank money settlement.
Visa is expanding its backing for stablecoins, adding settlement support for three more coins as well two new blockchains.
Mastercard is to open a ‘Sustainability Innovation Lab’ in Stockholm, which will act as a research and development space for the creation of climate conscious products.
Nick Hungerford, Nutmeg co-founder and one of Britain’s most successful fintech entrepreneurs has died at the age of 43.
Rent reporting platform Boom has raised $4.5 million in a seed funding round joined by Plaid co-founders William Hockey and Zach Perret.
Citi’s consumer business has introduced a digital wealth investment tool for clients with as little as $1500 to invest.
Open banking platform Tink has launched a rules-based risk engine to protect merchants from fraud on instant payment rails.
Standard Chartered is making the most of its internal talent by using an AI-based marketplace to match employees’ skills with project-specific ‘gigs’.
JP Morgan has agreed to buy Global Shares, an Irish cloud-based provider of share plan management software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Cross-border payments startup Keeta has launched with $17 million in funding from investors including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
JPMorgan Chase’s growth equity investment unit has led a €36 million Series B funding round for Dutch cybersecurity firm Eye Security.