Mastercard’s research and development arm is teaming up with Microsoft to harness the power of the cloud to drive digital commerce, startup innovation and financial inclusion.

Finextra is returning to Stockholm for the annual NextGen Nordics event. Attendees can expect in-depth conversations on a variety of topics, and much more.

Nationwide Building Society has begun issuing ‘dot and notch’ embossed and recycled bank cards that are certified by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).

Purchase scams starting on Facebook and Instagram are expected to cost UK consumers more than £27m this year alone, according to an analysis by Lloyds Banking Group.

ANZ is following the lead taken by top tech companies such as Google and Spotify by laying waste to middle management in IT and moving to an agile self-directed approach to new product development.

A senior HSBC executive is the latest banker to call for technology and social media firms to help foot the bill for compensating victims of Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud.

Security researchers have identified a new phishing technique using progressive web applications (PWAs) to target customers of banks in Eastern Europe.

Kicking off Finextra’s inaugural Financial Cloud Summit, former Dragon’s Den dragon Piers Linney, entrepreneur and investor, founder and CEO of Moblox, set the scene for the day, focusing on cloud strategy, migration and optimisation.

Swiss banking software provider Temenos has acquired Logical Glue, a London-based Explainable AI (XAI) specialist with financial services customers in the UK and Europe. Financial terms were not disclosed.

With growing momentum surrounding digital currencies, Nordic central banks are increasingly responding to the need for digital transformation in the monetary landscape. Events like NextGen Nordics at the Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden, on 29 April 2025, are propelling forward the discussions on their advantages and risks, especially in relation to traditional banking systems. But, as enthusiasm around CBDCs rises, so does the concern over their potential to disrupt existing financial systems, particularly through the risk of disintermediation of native banking systems.

After 36 gruelling hours of coding, designing and testing, Sage Pay’s three-person team has emerged victorious at the ZappHack Revive Retail hackathon in London this week.

At Finextra’s first NextGen: AI event, Roberto Napolitano, chief marketing officer at Innovate Finance, moderated the panel session: ‘How do we deploy?’ in conversation with speakers Sandra Blaga, strategy and innovation manager of AI delivery at NatWest, and Prashant Jajodia, managing partner and financial services sector lead at IBM.

Fidelity Investments, Thomson Reuters and Amazon are backing a fintech startup programme in Boston that will provide early stage firms with free and discounted access to financial data sets to test-drive their applications.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is to provide personalised carbon footprints for customers based on their spending data in a partnership with fintech start-up CoGo.