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French wealth management startup Ramify raises €11m

French wealth management and financial advisory platform Ramify has raised €11 million in a Series A funding round joined by Crédit Agricole.

/retail

Lunar and SAS partner for debit card

Danish neobank Lunar has launched a debit card with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) that allows users to gain and use EuroBonus points.

/payments

Apple shuts down Apple Pay Later

Apple is killing off its buy now, pay later service just a year after launch as it switches its focus to working with third parties for instalment loans.

/retail

BBVA preps German digital bank

Spain's BBVA is planning to launch a consumer digital bank in Germany, according to Bloomberg.

/security

Martin Lewis tops NatWest's Celebrity Scam Super League

UK Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis tops the list of NatWest's Celebrity Scam Super League, which ranks the the highest value cases in which a celebrity’s name or image has been used without their knowledge to lure consumers into making a fake investment.

/startups

Prosper smashes £800,000 Crowdcube target

Prosper, the UK WealthTech founded by Tandem and Nutmeg alumni, has hit its £800,000 Crowdcube target before launching to the public.

/cloud

Thought Machine becomes Mastercard core banking partner

Thought Machine has become Mastercard's first strategic end-to-end core banking partner, with the pair offering their combined capabilities to financial institutions looking to modernise their technology stacks.

/people

Boerse Stuttgart Digital hires Solaris tech lead as CTO

The digital assets arm of Boerse Stuttgart has hired Solaris tech chief Dennis Winter as CTO.

/crypto

US judge green lights Terraform's $4.5bn SEC settlement

Terraform Labs and its former CEO Do Kwon have reached a $4.5 billion settlement with the SEC after a jury verdict held them liable for orchestrating a years-long fraud involving crypto asset securities that led to massive investor losses when the scheme unravelled.

/ai

Finextra launches NextGen:AI, a new event defining AI's future in financial services

Join Finextra in London on 26th November 2024 to challenge the perception of AI and its role in financial services.

/payments

BNP Paribas and BPCE announce strategic payments partnership

The banking groups have publicised plans to jointly acquire payments processing technology for card holders and merchants.

/sustainable

Registration open for Sustainable Finance Live 2024

Finextra’s annual sustainability event, Sustainable Finance Live, will return on Tuesday 8th October at Events@No6 in London.