/crime
Canada is setting up a financial crimes agency to take on a rising tide of online scams as part of a national anti-fraud strategy that will also require more action from banks.
1 hour
/regulation
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared Global Payments' $22.7 billion deal to acquire Worldpay.
8 hours
UK-based fintech Revolut has received the greenlight to start full banking operations in Mexico.
10 hours
/cloud
UK banks' online services are beginning to recover after a problem with Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused widespread outages across several apps and websites.
13 hours
/startups
Dubai-based bank Emirates NBD has released details of the fifth edition of its National Digital Talent Incubator programme.
14 hours
Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland have seen their online services go down following an outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
15 hours
/payments
Lloyds has teamed up with hospitality technology specialist Lolly on a Pay by Bank system for self-service kiosks.
20 October 2025
Banks and payment firms should improve their monitoring systems and staff training to help protect customers from romance scams, which cost Brits £108 million last year, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
17 October 2025
/crypto
PayPal’s blockchain partner Paxos accidentally minted $300 trillion in stablecoins in an internal transfer on Wednesday.
The US government has seized nearly $15 billion worth of bitcoin linked to a Cambodian man accused of running "forced-labour" cryptocurrency “pig butchering” scams.
/people
UBS is the latest banking giant to bring artificial intelligence into the C suite, tapping JP Morgan's Daniele Magazzeni as its first chief AI officer.
/wholesale
Digital asset giant Ripple is making a move into corporate treasury through the $1 billion acquisition of GTreasury.
16 October 2025
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