Spain’s Banco Sabadell is hosting its first hackathon, providing competing teams of developers with open access to its bank service API to generate fresh ideas and innovative financial applications.
Mozilla is to introduce an experimental Web API designed to make online payments on the desktop and mobile as easy as the checkout button for merchants.
Spain’s CaixaBank has laid out a two-year, €5 billion technology roadmap that will seek to put generative AI at the centre of the bank’s operations.
BBVA and Google are calling on developers to enter a competition to develop business productivity applications for SMEs and entrepreneurs in Spain and Latin America.
Genesis, the London-based supplier of a low code platform for capital markets development, has raised $200 million in a Series C funding round led by Tiger Global Management.
Standard Bank of South Africa is to adopt a cloud-first approach to its business, contracting with Amazon Web Services for a mass-migration of its IT architecture in a bid to drive its digital transformation strategy.
Swiss digital asset banking firm Sygnum has achieved unicorn status on a $58 million funding round.
Banking co-operative Swift is working with global banks on AI pilots to tackle cross-border payments fraud.
With authorised push payment fraud on the rise, the FCA says banks should strengthen anti-crime systems and must treat victims of fraud better.
Digital wealth manager Moneyfarm has tapped existing investor Allianz Asset Management and a combination of VC and private equity funding to raise £40 million in a Series B financing round, advancing its ambitions to enter the personal financial management arena.
Louise Hill, co-founder & COO of the children’s financial education app, GoHenry, recently sat down with Finextra to discuss developing financial resilience at a young age and their recent acquisition.
BBVA Asset Management is investigating the use of blockchain technology for a “tokenised” investment fund.
Opening the final day of Money 20/20 Europe was a session exploring whether treasury management is broken.
BBVA is creating a training programme to give its top executives a grounding in the use of GenAI to improve productivity.
Criminals stole £1.17 billion through fraud in the UK last year, with a slight fall in authorised push payment fraud losses offset by a rise in remote purchase fraud.