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Better.com CEO fires 900 in single Zoom call

The boss of digital mortgage outfit Better.com is under fire after laying off around 900 employees on a single Zoom call and then accusing many of "stealing" by being unproductive.

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Former TSB chief Paul Pester moves into fintech with social network for money

Paul Pester, the former TSB chief executive who fell on his sword in the wake of a disastrous IT failure at the UK lender, is set to launch a social networking app enabling friends and family members to share money.

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Arteria AI to buy H4's FS business assets

Enterprise digital documentation specialist Arteria AI has agreed to acquire the financial services business assets of contract lifecycle management platform H4.

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David Marcus quits Facebook

David Marcus has quit as the boss of Facebook parent Meta's fintech unit after leading a frustrating effort to launch the Novi digital wallet and its associated stablecoin Diem.

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Dorsey resigns from Twitter

Jack Dorsey has resigned has CEO of Twitter, leaving him free to concentrate on leading his other company, payments giant Square.

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SME challenger bank Redwood hits profitability

Redwood, the British challenger bank for SMEs, has hit profitability less than four years after launching.

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Mizuho CEO quits over series of IT problems

Mizuho Financial Group CEO Tatsufumi Sakai has resigned after Japan's banking regulator hit the firm with a business improvement order related to a series of systems glitches.

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ING innovation chief Vreugdenhil leaves for ABN Amro

ING chief innovation officer Annerie Vreugdenhil is leaving the bank less than a year into the job to take up a position on the executive board of ABN Amro.

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Citi to hire 100 staff for digital assets division

Citi Bank is to hire 100 staff to kickstart its digital assets business.

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Atom Bank offers all staff the option of four-day working week

Atom Bank has become the largest company in Britain to introduce a four-day working week for all of its 430 employees.

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ECB taps ING's Evelien Witlox to lead digital euro programme

The European Central Bank has hired ING's global director of payments, Evelien Witlox, to head up its digital euro programme.

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Fintech has a systemic gender diversity problem

Just 1.5 per cent of global fintech firms are founded solely by women, and receive just one per cent of total fintech funding, a new study has found.