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Inpay partners with Red Cross to reduce money transfer costs

Cross-border payments fintech Inpay has announced a partnership with the Red Cross in Denmark to enable emergency funding across more countries.

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UK to host global AI summit at historic Bletchley Park

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that the global summit on the safety of artificial intelligence (AI) will be hosted at the historic Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, where Alan Turing and a group of codebreakers cracked the Enigma code during World War II.

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Mastercard launches AI centre in UAE to bolster Middle East growth

Mastercard has partnered with the UAE government to advance AI capabilities and development in the Middle East. Along with the partnership Mastercard has established a global Centre for Advanced AI and Cyber Technology in Dubai to accelerate generative AI research.

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Citi invests in Peruvian FX fintech Rextie

US banking giant Citi has made a strategic investment in Peruvian foreign exchange fintech Rextie.

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TT boosts cross-asset offering with Abel Noser Solutions acquisition

Capital markets tech vendor Trading Technologies has agreed to buy Abel Noser Solutions (ANS), a provider of transaction cost analysis for investment managers, brokers, asset owners and consultants. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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UK forms climate finance partnership with Fiji

The UK Government has announced that the British High Commission (BHC) in Suva, Fiji have formed a partnership to deliver climate finance projects in Pacific Island countries.

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CBDC benefits found in Digital Dollar Project’s pilot study

The Digital Dollar Project has concluded their pilot study into digital currency opportunities alongside Western Union, BDO Unibank in the Philippines, and Accenture.

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Fintech and sustainability at the heart of UK and Singapore’s Financial Dialogue

HM Treasury and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) held the eighth UK-Singapore Financial Dialogue in London yesterday, discussing further collaboration in sustainable finance and fintech.

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RTGS.global to pilot cross-border service with banks in Georgia and Tajikistan

RTGS.global has signed pilot agreements with MDO Humo in Tajikistan and Credo Bank in Georgia as a move to run pilots of its settlement service in Central Asia.

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CAB Payments raises up to £335m in London listing

British business-to-business cross-border payments firm CAB Payments raised up to £335 million through a listing on the London Stock Exchange.

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CAB Payments plans London listing

British business-to-business cross-border payments firm CAB Payments is planning to list on the London Stock Exchange.

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BNP Paribas and NatWest go live with CobaltFX Dynamic Credit

BNP Paribas and NatWest are going live with technology from CobaltFX that is designed to simplify and streamline the allocation of credit for FX transactions between banks and improve access to liquidity.

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Austrade and SFA launch fintech collaboration initiative

The Singapore Fintech Association (SFA) and Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) have launched a joint programme to foster fintech innovation in both APAC countries.

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T Rowe tests Avalanche blockchain Subnet

T Rowe Price Associates and WisdomTree are among the FS firms testing the Avalanche blockchain for executing FX and interest rate swaps.

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United Fintech splits Cobalt into separate FX and digital asset ventures

Following its recent acquisition by United Fintech, Cobalt is relaunching as CobaltFX and spinning off its digital asset business to a new venture on the same platform.

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Standard Chartered and Allinpay partnership enables cross-border QR payments

Standard Chartered Bank and Singaporean company Allinpay have enabled PayNow instant cross-border payments for merchants and businesses in Hong Kong using QR codes.

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Banque de France, HSBC, IBM test interoperability of wholesale CBDC

Following experiments demonstrating that DLT can be used with existing networks to complete CBDC financial transactions in real-time, Banque de France, HSBC and IBM have published a paper exploring their key findings.

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United Fintech buys FX and digital assets specialist Cobalt

United Fintech, an outfit dedicated to scooping up a stable of capital markets fintechs, has acquired Cobalt, a provider of risk and data services to the FX and digital asset markets. Terms were not disclosed.

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BIS and three central banks to test cross-border CBDCs using DeFi protocols

The Bank for Inernational Settlements is working with three central banks to explore cross-border CBDC trading and settlement using DeFi protocols.

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DBS goes live on SGX unit's crypto platform; launches programmable money pilot

DBS has become the first bank to go live on a new digital asset trading platform from Singapore Exchange unit MaxxTrader.