/crypto
An Australian court has ruled in favour of the country's securities regulator against the local operator of the Kraken crypto exchange over design and distribution obligations when offering a margin trading product.
23 August 2024
/retail
Deutsche Bank has been in the process of acquiring Postbank since 2008, and has been facing trouble agreeing to a settlement with Postbank shareholders.
/payments
Nationwide users have received a message that payments "are delayed at the moment". This comes after similar issues in June.
/sustainable
Leading up to Finextra’s annual green conference, Sustainable Finance Live, which will take place at Events@No6 on October 8 in London, keynote speaker and founder of ResponsibleRisk Richard Peers interviewed Robin Millington, CEO of Planet Tracker.
/people
Ashley Alder, FCA chair, has been accused of revealing the identity of an internal whistleblower despite the regulator's policy to protect their identity.
/inclusion
MUFG Bank is investing another $333 million in Indian digital lender DMI Finance at a valuation of around $3 billion.
/startups
Visa has joined a $5 million funding round in Kenyan payroll provider Workpay.
22 August 2024
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is delivering near real-time cross-border payments to businesses and consumers who receive international payments from customers of US bank BNY.
/ai
BBVA has doubled the number of staff working on artificial intelligence to more than 400 as it opens new 'AI Factories' in Mexico and Turkey.
/security
Security researchers have identified a new phishing technique using progressive web applications (PWAs) to target customers of banks in Eastern Europe.
Former Google and Ripple executives have raised $8.5 million for a startup, called Skyfire, building a payments network that enables AI agents to make autonomous transactions.
Klarna has acquired the assets of defunct buy now, pay later firm Laybuy in New Zealand.
21 August 2024
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