/retail
NatWest is in talks to offload its 85% stake in Cushon, two years after spending £144 million for majority ownership of the workplace savings and pensions fintech, according to Sky News.
1 hour
/ai
Fintech venture capital firm, SoftBank Vision Fund, will be axing 20% of its staff in a push to boost AI investment.
5 hours
/startups
Nvidia Corp has pledged £2 billion to fund AI innovation and development in the UK, investing in AI companies, fintech firms, and startups.
/crypto
Growing from a market capitalisation of $130 billion to $280 billion since the end of 2023, Stablecoins continue to grow in relevance. Recent regulatory framework introductions have begun to go further and introduce their adoption within broader applications across traditional finance.
7 hours
/inclusion
Kredete has raised $22 million to help African immigrants in North America and Europe build credit and send remittances via stablecoin payments.
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/wholesale
The UK accounted for more than half of European fintech venture funding in the first half of 2025, as the sector reached a point of maturity following a difficult couple of years, according to a Finch Capital report.
Stablecore has raised $20 million for a platform that helps community and regional banks and credit unions offer stablecoins, tokenized deposits and digital asset products.
18 September 2025
/regulation
The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has advised firms dipping their toes into crypto activities to use blockchain analytics tools to help them with risk management and compliance.
/payments
Google and PayPal have agreed a multi-year collaboration to advance agentic shopping and frictionless commerce payments.
/markets
Deutsche Bank's asset management division, DWS, is reputed to be preparing to divest its data centre operations, NorthC in a sale expected to exceed €2 billion
DBS, Franklin Templeton and Ripple have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish repo markets powered by tokenized collateral and stablecoins.
Nordic mobile payment platform Vipps MobilePay is to adopt Tink's Pay by Bank platform for account-to-acount payments in Finland.
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