/payments
Plaid has caved into demands by JPMorgan to pay for access to customer data, after the US bank accused aggregator firms of ‘massively taxing’ its systems with unnecessary pings.
16 September 2025
Customers of Lloyds bank have deposited over £1 million with PayPoint's BankLocal service within a month of the app-based cash deposit feature going live.
/crypto
Crypto payments firm MoonPay has acquired Meso, a startup founded by former PayPal executives to bridge traditional finance and digital assets. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
PayPal users can now send and receive money through a personalised, one-time link sent over text, email, direct message, or chat.
/retail
Hala, a Saudi Arabian fintech that provides embedded financial services to micro, small and medium enterprises, has raised $157 million in a Series B funding round.
UK card reader SumUp has reportedly called in investment bankers to measure demand for a potential IPO that could value it at £15 billion.
15 September 2025
/regulation
The Bank of England has come under fire for proposals to impose strict caps on the value of stablecoins that individuals and companies can hold.
ANZ is facing $240 million in penalties over misreporting of bond trading data to the Australian government and 'widespread misconduct' across retail products and services.
Starling Bank's SaaS arm, Engine, has named industry veteran Jody Bhagat to lead its expansion into North America.
/security
Bank-to-bank messaging network Swift is hailing the results of tests that used a combination of AI and cross-border data sharing to double real time fraud detection in trials involving 13 top tier banks and ten million test transactions.
Metro Bank has settled a a legal claim with US software company Arkeyo over allegations that it leaked the company's coin counting technology to a rival firm.
/markets
The London Stock Exchange has launched a blockchain-based Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) platform for private funds and facilitated its first transaction.
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