/payments
US Bank has launched an alternative to buy now, pay later schemes with the roll out of a credit card that automatically splits purchases into a three-month payment plan.
4 hours
/ai
AI-based loan underwriting platform Zest AI has completed an oversubscribed, customer-led financing round.
The UK Treasury has instructed the Financial Services Skills Commission (FSSC) to produce a report on AI skills needs, training and innovation in financial services.
/sustainable
Explaining the development of The National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) currently in pilot, a panel at Sustainable Finance.Live discussed the complexities involved in data sharing across organisations and across countries.
17 hours
Europe's largest ticketing provider, CTS Eventim, has become the first major e-commerce company in Germany to integrate the Wero wallet from the bank-backed European Payments Initiative into its online shop.
18 hours
Stripe is exploring the integration of NEC's face recognition technology into its POS terminal for in-person payments.
19 hours
/wholesale
United Fintech, an umbrella outfit dedicated to scooping up a stable of capital markets, wealth management and wholesale banking vendors, has made its seventh acquisition to date, buying out commercial lending platform Trade Ledger.
At Sustainable Finance Live 2025, moderator Andrew Watson, co-founder of Rethinking Capital opened the panel on sustainable accounting by highlighting the transition towards an economy fuelled by intangibles, and that 1997 was the last year in which technical accountants featured in conversations taking place at COP.
/retail
Starling Bank has signed a ten-year deal to implement its core banking software, Engine, at Canada's Tangerine Bank, a digital offshoot of the Bank of Nova Scotia.
05 November 2025
/security
Top mobile networks including BT EE, VodafoneThree and Virgin Media 02, are to introduce a raft of new measures to protect consumers from fraud, under a new Telecoms Charter agreed with the UK government.
In this year’s showcase, panellists explored the life cycle of a large infrastructure project planning process by highlighting the key stages of the value chain.
04 November 2025
/crime
European authorities have arrested nine people in connection with a cryptocurrency money laundering network that defrauded victims of more than €600m
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