Square, the US-based payment company owned by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is urging crypto companies to join its newly-formed patent alliance in a bid to maintain an open-source community within the industry and mitigate the malicious use of patents.

PayOS and Mastercard have completed an autonomos agentic payment transaction using a Mastercard Agentic Token.

Barclays is collaborating with UK-based artificial intelligence company ExpectAI to help small and medium-sized businesses grow their profits, using sustainability insights.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has issued a set of climate risk guidelines to help financial regulators across the world assess bank preparedness in a co-ordinated fashion.

New research from Barclays Bank reveals that one in five consumers fell victim to a scam in the last year.

M&G Investments has led a $30 million seed round in digital asset trading startup Global Futures and Options (GFO-X) ahead of its forthcoming go-live.

Australia’s banks have experienced a marked decline in scams, money laundering and remote access attacks after switching on a real-time intelligence sharing network.

A group of 14 banks – including Santander, RBC and MUFG – has launched a digital platform designed to tackle international trade barriers.

UK-based pensions fintech Jarvis has raised £1.8 million in seed funding in a round co-led by Ascension VC and Cornerstone VC, with participation from Tokio Marine Future Fund.

Payments giant Stripe is acquiring crypto wallet infrastructure startup Privy for an undisclosed fee.

Gareth Southgate has taken time out from guiding the English football team to the finals of the World Cup to laud Deutsche Bank for a pioneering hackathon in which technical staff from across the globe will compete to design a mobile app to help people afflicted with Leukaemia.

Istanbul-based retail investing startup Midas has raised $80 million in Series B funding led by QED Investors.

OpenAI has hired more than 100 former investment bankers to help train its AI to build financial models, according to Bloomberg.

Visa is running pilot trials of USD-backed stablecoin payouts to creators and gig workers.

Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Amazon and Google, has launched a tool to help finance professionals analyse markets, conduct research, and make investment decisions with its Claude models.