/retail
The Automoblie Association (AA) is to open savings and loan accounts for members and the wider market using embedded finance tools from NatWest Boxed.
24 February 2025
/payments
Nexi is to begin connecting the first German merchants to the Wero wallet from the European Payments Initiative in the third quarter of this year, shortly after the launch of the bank-backed digital wallet for German e-commerce in the summer.
/crypto
Coinbase is claiming victory in its long-running tussle with the Securities Exchange Commission, stating that the regulator has agreed to drop its enforcement case against the crypto firm.
Crypto exchange Bybit says hackers have stolen nearly $1.5 billion in Ethereum (ETH) from one of its cold wallets.
21 February 2025
The UK government is inviting bidders for a £49 million contract to embed open banking technology into its Gov.UK Pay payments platform.
/startups
Forbes has released its annual Fintech 50 list for the tenth year, highlighting the top growing fintech businesses in the industry.
/regulation
UK regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has fined Citi, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, and the Royal Bank of Canada £104.5 million for sharing sensitive information about UK bonds between 2009 and 2013.
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) outlined a 12-point strategy today to boost Hong Kong’s virtual asset (VA) market.
/ai
Crunchbase is getting an AI-powered makeover, moving away from historical company data towards predictive intelligence that it says will help users forecast with unerring accuracy how private firms are set to grow, what their funding rounds will look like, and future acquisitions.
/wholesale
London-based small business credit card provider Capital on Tap has secured £750 million in funding facilities.
Chase has warned customers that it will start blocking payments to social media contacts through the Zelle P2P network over fraud concerns.
The European Central Bank is looking into how to settle distributed ledger technology-based transactions in fiat money.
20 February 2025
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