AI-based loan underwriting platform Zest AI has completed an oversubscribed, customer-led financing round.

Mastercard has set itself a target of hitting 100% e-commerce tokenisation in Europe by 2030, phasing out manual card entry and making online shopping safer and more accessible.

Marking the fourth anniversary of PSD2 becoming a regulatory requirement across the EU, the UK’s Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) has issued a statement citing substantial adoption of the initiative across 3.9 million consumers and 600,000 small businesses.

With standards like the EU AI Act coming to the fore, and with the drive towards digital not slowing down, the last panel of the day discussed AI’s impact on regulation and customer experience.

The FCA has published proposals for ensuring financial resilience in the face of upcoming regulations governing cryptoasset firms, with an added focus on stablecoins.

ACI Worldwide is bringing together account-to-account (A2A), card payments and AI-driven fraud prevention on a unified cloud-native platform, ACI Connetic.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has told the country’s financial institutions to make sure they are prepared for the rising cybersecurity risks posed by quantum computing.

ABN Amro has co-led a €11.5 million seed round in fraud detection fintech ThreatFabric to exp[and its technical capabilities and support its growth.

At Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Finextra spoke to Adrian Whelan, global head of market intelligence at Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), on data scarcity, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, how the industry is handling diversity and inclusion in the current political landscape.

Visa has teamed up with blockchain data provider Allium Labs to build a dashboard that helps people make sense of stablecoin activity.

With 2019 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items, videos and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.

The Financial Conduct Authority has fined Starling Bank £29 million for failings related to its financial sanctions screening.

Charm, an AI-powered security platform that protects organisations and their customers from scams, social engineering, and human-centric fraud, has emerged from stealth with $8 million in seed funding.

Financial transactions database TigerBeetle has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round led by Spark Capital.