/startups
Dubai-based bank Emirates NBD has released details of the fifth edition of its National Digital Talent Incubator programme.
1 hour
/cloud
Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland have seen their online services go down following an outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
2 hours
/payments
Lloyds has teamed up with hospitality technology specialist Lolly on a Pay by Bank system for self-service kiosks.
12 hours
/regulation
Banks and payment firms should improve their monitoring systems and staff training to help protect customers from romance scams, which cost Brits £108 million last year, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
17 October 2025
/crypto
PayPal’s blockchain partner Paxos accidentally minted $300 trillion in stablecoins in an internal transfer on Wednesday.
The US government has seized nearly $15 billion worth of bitcoin linked to a Cambodian man accused of running "forced-labour" cryptocurrency “pig butchering” scams.
/people
UBS is the latest banking giant to bring artificial intelligence into the C suite, tapping JP Morgan's Daniele Magazzeni as its first chief AI officer.
/wholesale
Digital asset giant Ripple is making a move into corporate treasury through the $1 billion acquisition of GTreasury.
16 October 2025
HSBC has formed a partnership with payment orchestration platform Juspay to launch an acquiring platform tailored to the needs of digital-first, global merchants.
Payroll platform Deel has announced an investment of $300m led by new backer Ribbit Capital which has seen its valuation rise to $17.3bn.
/retail
BNPL provider Klarna has fired the first shots in its assault on UK bank's retail business with the launch of a debit card and a digital wallet.
/ai
Day two of the SBS Summit 2025 continued to prioritise customer experience, but this time with a specific focus on data usage and inclusive efforts to serve the unbanked.
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