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News/people
Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of crypto exchange Binance, who served prison time after pleading guilty in 2023 to enabling money laundering on the platform.
23 October 2025
News/crypto
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.
17 October 2025
News/markets
The layoffs of federal workers in the US as a result of the government shutdown could create numerous blind spots in the regulation of the country's banking sector, says the CEO of a fintech startup.
09 October 2025
News/payments
Payment firms have reacted with disappointment to the news that a plan promoted by the G20 to make cross-border payments more efficient is set to miss its first deadline.
The UK's financial watchdog has ended its four year ban on the use of crypto-based exchange traded notes (ETNs) by retail investors in a move that could add 20% to the UK's crypto market
08 October 2025
News/startups
Charlie Javice has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding JP Morgan Chase in the $175 million deal to buy her fintech Frank.
30 September 2025
News/retail
Metro Bank has settled a a legal claim with US software company Arkeyo over allegations that it leaked the company's coin counting technology to a rival firm.
15 September 2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed a complaint against Synapse Financial Technologies for allegedly losing customer funds when the company filed for bankruptcy protection.
22 August 2025
New York's attorney general has sued the operator of bank-backed P2P payments service Zelle for failing to protect users from "massive amounts of fraud".
14 August 2025
News/regulation
Fintech’s international expansion plans are being thwarted by a fragmented regulatory landscape, according to recently published research designed to promote the role of international finance centres (IFCs).
06 August 2025
Hong Kong's financial regulator has stated that the first stablecoin licences will not be issued this year despite the fact its stablecoin legislation has taken effect as of today.
01 August 2025
Visa and Mastercard are facing another multi-billion pound UK class action lawsuit for allegedly unlawful interchange fees.
18 July 2025
Two of the biggest names on Wall Street are seemingly about to enter the stablecoin market based on comments made by their senior executives.
16 July 2025
A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Apple, Visa and Mastercard of conspiring to suppress competition in the market for point-of-sale payment card services, according to Reuters.
10 July 2025
A UK judge has sentenced two men to a combined 12 years in prison for a £1.5 million cryptocurrency fraud.
04 July 2025
The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled that Visa and Mastercard's multilateral interchange fees charged to retailers breach European competition law.
27 June 2025
Crypto exchange Kraken has become the first company to be awarded a Markets in Crypto Assets (Mica) licence from Ireland's central bank.
News/ai
The vast majority of employees in Ireland's financial services believe that the rise of AI will lead to job displacement across the industry, according to a recently released survey.
26 June 2025
BNPL provider Sezzle has sued Shopify, alleging that the e-commerce marketplace has been stifling competition on its platform.
16 June 2025
Mastercard's £200 million settlement of a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of British consumers has been signed off by the Competition Appeal Tribunal in a move that could see millions of shoppers receiving up to £70 each.
20 May 2025
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