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AML firm Themis raises £7.25m

Financial crime prevention platform Themis has raised £7.25 million in scale-up funding.

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EBA Clearing launches Sepa-wide Verification of Payee

EBA Clearing has launched a Sepa-wide Verification of Payee (VOP) service to help PSPs in Europe meet Instant Payment Regulation requirements.

/payments

ABN Amro pilots 'Pay Later' feature for B2B transactions

ABN Amro is launching a 'Pay Later' debtor management pilot for business clients with the aim of securing trust in online B2B transactions.

/payments

Klarna fined $50 million over AML violations

Klarna has been fined Skr500 million ($50 million) by Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority, for anti-money laundering defects.

/payments

Swedish spend management fintech Mynt raises €22 million

Swedish spend management fintech Mynt has raised a €22 million Series B funding round at a significantly increased valuation of approximately €175 million.

/people

Santander hires PayPal veteran to run its Digital Consumer Bank

Santander has hired PayPal exec Nitin Prabhu as global head of its Digital Consumer Bank.

/startups

Islamic fintech startup Ayan Capital secures £2.6 million in equity funding

Ayan Capital, a London-based Islamic fintech, has secured £2.8 million in equity funding to expand halal car finance and other Islamic finance products in the UK.

/security

Google Cloud joins with Swift in fight against fraud

Bank-to-bank Payment network Swift is working with Google Cloud to develop multi-jurisdictional anti-fraud technologies that use advanced AI and federated learning

/crypto

Deutsche Bank and Crypto.com sign corporate banking deal

Deutsche Bank has signed on as Crypto.com's corporate banking partner in Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong, with additional support and coverage to come.

/payments

Santander teams with CloudPay to help SMEs offer employees earned wage access

Payroll firm CloudPay has formed a partnership with Banco Santander to give employees of the bank's SME and company clients in Spain real-time access to their earned wages.

/security

Gen Digital to buy MoneyLion for $1bn

Mobile banking firm MoneyLion has agreed to be acquired by tech group Gen Digital in a $1 billion cash deal.

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ThetaRay partners Microsoft for GenAI financial crime detection suite

ThetaRay has integrated with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to develop a GenAI financial crime detection suite.