/wholesale
United Fintech, an umbrella outfit dedicated to scooping up a stable of capital markets, wealth management and wholesale banking vendors, has made its seventh acquisition to date, buying out commercial lending platform Trade Ledger.
05 November 2025
/sustainable
At Sustainable Finance Live 2025, moderator Andrew Watson, co-founder of Rethinking Capital opened the panel on sustainable accounting by highlighting the transition towards an economy fuelled by intangibles, and that 1997 was the last year in which technical accountants featured in conversations taking place at COP.
/retail
Starling Bank has signed a ten-year deal to implement its core banking software, Engine, at Canada's Tangerine Bank, a digital offshoot of the Bank of Nova Scotia.
/security
Top mobile networks including BT EE, VodafoneThree and Virgin Media 02, are to introduce a raft of new measures to protect consumers from fraud, under a new Telecoms Charter agreed with the UK government.
In this year’s showcase, panellists explored the life cycle of a large infrastructure project planning process by highlighting the key stages of the value chain.
04 November 2025
/crime
European authorities have arrested nine people in connection with a cryptocurrency money laundering network that defrauded victims of more than €600m
Charles McManus, co-founder and board director of ClearBank, delivered the keynote ‘Delivering the Impossible – A Case Study’, which recounted the inception and journey of ClearBank, and explored new possibilities for modern open banking infrastructure.
/crypto
Bill Winters, the chief executive of UK bank Standard Chartered, has stated that nearly all transactions will be settled on the blockchain, eventually.
Acknowledging the understanding that, for sustainable finance, there are a lot of opportunities but equally a lot of money and investment needed, a panel of experts at SF.live tackled how to reinvent the value of nature as an asset class.
/payments
Indian payments company Pine Labs is reportedly seeking to raise more than $430m from its upcoming IPO in Mumbai.
/ai
UAE-based Optasia, a AI-powered fintech, has listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in one of the country's biggest IPOs in recent years.
Ripple is further bolstering its crypto custody capabilities with the acquisition of UK digital asset wallet and custody company, Palisade.
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