Graham Fagan has been named as the new chief operating officer (COO) at Irish bank AIB.

Online bank Starling is today cutting the ribbon on its new office in UK town Southampton as it looks to bolster its operational resources.

United Overseas Bank (UOB) is mixing the physical and the digital with a new tech-packed branch focussed on Singapore’s large “emerging affluent” class.

An international one stop spoofing shop, which enabled criminals to appear as if they were calling from banks, tax offices and other official bodies, has been taken down in the UK’s biggest ever fraud operation.

Boston Fintech Week returned this week for its seventh instalment, welcoming industry experts and executives to a two day conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to discuss the state of banking and fintech at full throttle in the US, and explore what lies ahead.

Lithuanian bill-splitting startup Cino has raised has raised €3.5m in Seed funding led by Balderton Capital to expand into the UK.

BNP Paribas is backing attempts by the European Payments Initiative to wrest control of the EU’s payments ecosystem away from US card schemes and Big Tech giants and secure the Bloc’s sovereignty in payments.

Lloyds Bank is to use AI technology from Cleareye to eliminate the manual drudgery of paper processing and compliance checking for trade finance documentation.

Climate-focused fintech, Cultivo, has announced six new board members including former Bank of England governor and current vice chair at Brookfield Asset Management, Mark Carney.

On the day that the United Kingdom heads to the polls to vote in the General Election, The Payments Association has issued a plea to the incoming Chancellor to impose a ‘Tech Levy’ on social media giants to pay for the impact of payments fraud originating from their platforms.

UK fintech Wise is counting the cost of falling short of analysts’ expectations after its latest quarterly results triggered a sharp fall in its share price despite a solid financial performance that saw most metrics increase.

Nordic challenger bank Lunar is to begin processing Visa cards over a cloud-native core banking platform provided by Pismo.

A fictional fund generated by ChatGPT is significantly outperforming the average of the UK’s 10 most popular funds, which have collectively lost 0.8% in value over the same time period.

BlackRock has taken a minority stake in Clarity AI, a Spanish fintech firm that uses machine learning and big data to help investors understand the sociatel impact of their investment portfolios.

ABN Amro is pulling out of the robo advisory market, shutting down its online wealth management business, Prospery, in Germany after failing to attract sufficient clients.