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Nubank names Ethan Eismann chief design officer

Ethan Eismann has been appointed as the digital bank’s first Chief Design Officer (CDO), marking a strategic addition to its executive team. This change in leadership is meant to improve Nubank’s product experience and innovation efforts around the world.

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Challenger Differentiation is Now About More Than Just UX & Technology

Following his time hosting a panel, Sulabh Agarwal, Managing Director - Global Payments, Accenture joined the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025 in Paris. Sharing his personal insights into the most interesting payment trends of 2025 so far, Agarwal mentioned digital euros, stablecoins, and the general 'reinvention of money' innovations. Later, Agarwal also shared his opinion on the increasingly difficult task of retaining differentiation as a challenger bank.

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areeba and Foo forge strategic partnership to drive digital payments services in the Middle East

areeba, a global leader in payment infrastructure, has partnered with Foo, a pioneering provider of digital banking and fintech solutions, to introduce a fully integrated - program for digital services.

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Cross-border payments firm Altery partners with UnionPay to offer payment solutions in UK

Altery Ltd, a UK fintech startup, is excited to announce its partnership with UnionPay International as a principal member, following the official approval on September 13th, 2024.

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CBA taps Anthropic to accelerate AI adoption

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) today announced an expanded strategic partnership and investment in artificial intelligence (AI) safety and research company, Anthropic.

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Lloyds, TSB, Halifax, and Nationwide among UK banks down on payday

British banks TSB, Bank of Scotland, Nationwide Building Society, Halifax, Lloyds and First Direct have reported problems for customers making payments this morning.

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CorServ unveils digital interface

CorServ, a company that empowers banks and fintechs with payment programs, has launched a cutting-edge user interface designed to elevate the digital banking experience for client banks, brands and their credit card customers.

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Cytora launches explainable agentic AI solution for insurance risk assessments

Cytora has announced the latest version of its digital risk processing platform. Cytora Platform 3.0 enhances the capabilities of the platform by harnessing agentic AI in a fully explainable way.

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PalmPay and Jumia partner to develop Nigerian digital payment ecosystem

In an attempt to grow the use of the cashless economy, operator of Nigeria's most used mobile wallet PalmPay has partnered with African e-commerce giant Jumia.

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Sunshine+Kittens is set on revolutionising financial education for kids

Finextra spoke to co-founder Charles O’Neil and CMO Dan Walsh, of new financial literacy app, Sunshine+Kittens, which is set to launch early next year.

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Communify acquires Fincentric from S&P Global

Wealthtech entrepreneur John Wise and PE firm Stellex Capital Management have acquired S&P Global’s Fincentric business with a view to providing digital experiences and financial data distribution to the wealth, broking and asset management industries.

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56% of US companies offer faster payments; 35% planning to do so

According to a new US Faster Payments Council (FPC) report, more work is needed to ensure most faster payments products are financially inclusive.

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Centennial Bank picks Newgen to boost CX

Newgen Software, a global provider of a low-code platform for end-to-end automation at scale, announced that Centennial Bank, based in Arkansas, has partnered with the IT company to enhance its customer experience.

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Economic conditions, energy, cost of living rank highly in ethical risk factors for UK businesses

What is ethical risk? Ethical risk consists of the risks that could impede an organisation’s ability to live up to its ethical values and standards which impact consumer trust, reputation, and financial performance.

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NextGen Nordics 2024: Where will AI lead us?

In the last panel of NextGen Nordics 2024 in Stockholm, ‘The future of AI - crystallising the potential of this technology’ speakers explored how AI and new trends in tech are impacting the payments industry.

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NextGen Nordics 2024: How will incoming regulation shape payments infrastructure?

At NextGen Nordics 2024 in Stockholm, moderator Debi Bell Hoskings hosted an interactive panel session on new regulation on data and privacy, asking for input from the audience.

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NextGen Nordics 2024: BNPL just has a bad rep

At NextGen Nordics 2024 in Stockholm, experts engaged in a lively conversation on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) in a panel session.

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NextGen Nordics 2024: Nordics can look outwards for new instant payments approaches

In the first panel of NextGen Nordics 2024, Finextra’s head of content Madhvi Mavadiya moderated the session: ‘Instant payments – how to prepare for RIX-INST on TIPS and the benefits of starting with Swish’.

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NextGen Nordics 2024: NPC promoting innovation and harmonisation in the Nordics

NextGen Nordics, Finextra’s annual payments event, kicked off on April 23 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden, bringing together an array of experts and leaders in the Nordics payments industry.

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Danske Bank signs cloud deal with AWS

Denmark’s Danske Bank has signed a multiyear agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of a strategy to invest more in cloud technology.