“We expect to play a very meaningful role in making sure projects get delivered,” said John Flint, chief executive, UK Infrastructure Bank, regarding the role the bank will have in the HS2 replacement plans in the North of England.
BBVA is to share a EUR60,000 pot with developers who can augment bank API data from card transactions in Mexico with external resources to create innovative new financial applications.
The digital assets arm of Boerse Stuttgart has hired Solaris tech chief Dennis Winter as CTO.
Deutsche Bank and Mastercard are working together to bring open banking payments to merchants and consumers across Europe.
The CEO of a cryptocurrency firm was kidnaped and held for a C$1 million ransom in Toronto, according to local press reports.
TransferWise is expanding its debit card programme into dozens of new markets after inking a worldwide deal with Visa that will see the money transfer firm connect to the card giant’s global processing network via the cloud.
Sweden’s central bank says the country’s retail payment infrastructure needs to be modernised to accommodate more instant payments and third party access to payment and settlement rails.
Banks in Singapore will progressively implement Singpass Face Verification (SFV) over the next three months to strengthen the digital token (DT) setup process for retail banking customers.
Freetrade has announced it is leaving the Swedish market to focus its resources on UK self-directed investment market.
Banks in New Zealand have begun the phased roll out of Confirmation of Payee, using technology supplied by UK fintech obconnect.
Google Cloud has used its annual Las Vegas event to unveil details of deals with big name financial services firms Citadel, Discover and Scotiabank.
Deutsche Bank’s DWS is collaborating with crypto invesment firm Galaxy Digital and liquidity provider Flow Traders to create a joint venture for issuing a EUR-denominated stablecoin.
Lloyds Banking group is opening its innovation sandbox to a neural network-based AI product from UnlikelyAI.
Goldman Sachs and Nomura are among the companies using Meta’s Llama open source artificial intelligence models.
As the national independent authority in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) is responsible for protecting the personal data of individuals in the EU in accordance with GDPR, the EU’s Law Enforcement Directive (LED) and Irish ePrivacy Regulations.