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Nigerian fintech Moniepoint raises $110 million

Nigerian fintech behemoth Moniepoint has raised $110 million in funding to expand across Africa.

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Creating green jobs through biodiversity conservation: Tehanu AI’s pilot project

Speaking to chief experts of Tehanu AI, Tosca Tindall and Patrick McSharry, Finextra learned about their nature-finance focused business that is working to incentivise nature stewardship by creating green jobs.

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Afin taps Thought Machine to launch digital bank for Africans in the UK

Afin Bank, a digital lender created to help people from Africa living and working in the UK, has picked Thought Machine as its core banking provider.

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Citi signs with Google Cloud for AI

Citi has inked a multi-year agreement with Google Cloud that will see the US banking giant tap into the vendor's Vertex AI platform.

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Tappy launches payments and fitness ring

Tappy Technologies has launched a combined fitness and contactless payments ring.

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BBVA Asset Management pilots ‘tokenised’ fund

BBVA Asset Management is investigating the use of blockchain technology for a "tokenised" investment fund.

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Klarna investor increases valuation

A Klarna investor has increased the valuation it assigns to the BNPL giant, giving it an implied price tag of $14.6 billion ahead of a widely anticipated 2025 IPO.

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Central 1 to wind down digital banking business

Central 1 Credit Union is to wind down its digital banking business and transition clients to one or more alternative digital banking providers.

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Central banks prove use case for embedding compliance into cross-border transactions

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) along with central banks in Australia, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore have successfully demonstrated the feasibility of embedding regulatory compliance requirements with cross-border financial transactions.

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HSBC and Ant International laud results of blockchain-based tokenized deposit transfers

HSBC and Ant International have completed HKD-denominated cross-bank blockchain-based test transactions under the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Ensemble Sandbox.

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FCA fines Wise CEO Käärmann £350,000 for breach of senior manager conduct

Wise CEO Kristo Käärmann has been slapped with a £350,000 fine by the FCA for a breach of senior manager conduct relating to his failure to immediately report a default on his tax bill.

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Bank of England presses on with retail CBDC to plug bank innovation gap

The Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey has re-affirmed his support for a retail central bank digital currency, arguing that central banks are the "only game in town" as commercial banks lack the incentive to push for innovation.