Banco Santander has signed a multi-year cloud banking deal with Microsoft Azure.

Payabl. has appointed Lee Dunne, former head of embedded finance at Lloyds Banking Group, as banking lead.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is collaborating with Vodafone to share SMS scam intelligence in near real-time, allowing the telco to identify and disrupt scammers while the bank makes proactive blocks on fraudulent payments.

The US Securites and Exchange Commission has confirmeed that its X account was hacked and used to post spurious approval for the listing and trading of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products.

A group of three former Amex Ventures managing directors has secured $78 million for their debut fund backing early-stage fintech startups.

DBS has developed a hybrid human-robo investment service which is now available to customers in its native Singapore.

Fidelity Investments is in advanced stages of testing its own stablecoin, which is designed to act as cash in cryptocurrency markets and will be managed through its digital assets arm.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency says “highly sensitive information” was accessed in a hack on its email system.

Mastercard has unveiled a set of tools designed to make it easy for people to manage how they share their financial data with third parties.

Welcome to Finextra’s live coverage of FusionONE 2019. This two-day event is Finastra’s first major developer conference, which will see hundreds of developers from fintech companies and banks taking part in a deep dive into FusionFabric.cloud tools and infrastructure.

Spain’s Banco Sabadell is inviting third party developers to generate fresh ideas for mobile banking through an ‘Open Apps’ innovation programme, with an ATM location application for Google Glass first off the production line.

Mexico City-based AI-powered platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) Kapital has raised up to $100 million in a Series C funding round that doubles the firm’s valuation to $1.3 billion.

A team of Australian geeks have rigged up an ATM to play popular shoot-’em-up action game Doom.

The Linux Foundation has announced plans to user AI-enhanced open source analytics and open data to tackle climate risk and opportunity.