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CommBank to equip all staff with AI training modules

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is rolling out an AI microlearning series to all employees.

/retail

Royal Mint turns waste into gold

The UK's Royal Mint has set up an industrial plant to extract gold from discarded circuit boards.

/payments

X working on 'payments' button

Social network X could be close to adding a payments button as it builds towards Elon Musk’s ambitions of transforming the platform into an "everything app" where users can conduct their "entire financial life".

/retail

US fintech Octane raises $50m

Octane, a fintech focussed on enabling "major recreational purchases", has raised $50 million in a Series E funding round.

/inclusion

Mexican fintech Stori raises $212 million

Mexican fintech unicorn Stori has raised $212 million in equity and debt financing.

/security

Santander circulates deepfakes to raise awareness of scam threat

Santander has launched a campaign to demonstrate the threat to consumers from 'deepfake' videos circulating on social media platforms.

/ai

CIBC to hire 200 data and AI specialists

Canadian bank CIBC is set to hire more than 200 data and artificial intelligence roles over the next 12 month

/payments

JP Morgan preps more biometric payment pilots

JP Morgan is teaming up with vendor PopID to trial pay-by-face biometric payments with merchants across the US.

/payments

Varo picks Marqeta as issuer processor

American digital bank Varo has inked a five-year issuer processor deal with Marqeta.

/ai

S&P Global to give 35,000 employees GenAI training

Ratings and analytics provider S&P Global has struck a deal with Accenture to train its entire 35,000-strong workforce in generative AI.

/people

Two more Wirecard executives implicated in widening financial scandal

German prosecutors have charged a further two Wirecard executives with wrong-doing in the lead up to the collapse of the once hyped fintech company.

/cloud

NCR Voyix sells digital banking business for $2.45bn

NCR Voyix has entered an agreement to sell its cloud-based digital banking business for $2.45 billion in cash to Veritas Capital.