Nationwide Building Society says 2700 customers have signed up to a six-months’ free energy switching service on its Web site, with a third opting for green tariffs.

Worldpay is set to offer Mastercard’s Ethoca Alerts to its one million merchants worldwide, helping them resolve transaction disputes faster and with fewer chargebacks.

The UK and US governments have set up a transatlantic taskforce to explore collaboration on digital assets.

Societal impact app Novus has begun onboarding customers in the UK after closing a $3 million crowdfund.

Finom, the Amsterdam-based financial management platform for SMEs and freelancers, has closed a €115 million Series C funding round led by AVP, with participation from new investor Headline Growth and existing investors General Catalyst, Northzone, and Cogito Capital.

Senate Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren, have called on financial regulators to take action to tackle fraud related to the bank-owned Zelle P2P payments service.

Working in tandem with Amazon Web Services and Mastercard, Finnish fintech Enfuce has launched My Carbon Action, a digital tool that allows businesses to track and calculate the carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions of every purchase and provide insights into their climate change impact.

The Brexit brain drain is hampering UK financial services firms in the chase for highly sought-after tech talent, according to a report from TheCityUK and Odgers Berndtson and supported by Banco Santander.

The UK government has been called to make financial education compulsory from primary school by GoHenry, at an event in the House of Commons this week.

Banco Sabadell has signed a ten-year $1 billion deal with IBM to advance its hybrid cloud strategy, while UK subsidiary TSB contracts with Big Blue to rebuild its technological infrastructure after last year’s disastrous IT meltdown.

ANZ has invested $50 million for a minority equity stake in climate change investment and advisory group Pollination.

Private cryptocurrencies have failed the basic test of digital money and are likely to be in decline in the near future

German asset management company DWS has launched a new company in a step towards creating the first German-regulated cryptocurrency.

US authorities have charged the Russian founder of Hong Kong-based crypto exchange Bitzlato, which it says was used to launder hundreds of millions of dollars in criminal proceeds from the darknet.