/inclusion
LemFi, a financial services platform for immigrant communities has acquired UK fintech Pillar to expand its credit services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
16 June 2025
/retail
Shares in Metro Bank have continued to climb in early-morning trading after it emerged that the UK lender may have been lined up for a takeover by private equity firm Pollen Street Capital.
/payments
BNPL provider Sezzle has sued Shopify, alleging that the e-commerce marketplace has been stifling competition on its platform.
/crypto
Shopify is partnering with Coinbase and Stripe to allow merchants to process stablecoin payments for everyday commerce.
13 June 2025
/markets
Guernsey’s last locally-based bank ceased trading in 1996, making Bank Aston the first to be licensed by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) for almost thirty years.
/regulation
Cryptocurrency could be nearing a point where it poses a system risk to the world's financial system, the outgoing chair of the Financial Stability Board has warned.
GrailPay, a risk and data platform for bank payments, has secured $6.7 million in funding to expand its suite of tools that make ACH transactions safer and faster.
/ai
Klarna has partnered AI-powered gifting platform Nift to deliver personally tailored gifts to shoppers to boost customer loyalty.
Coinbase has partnered American Express to launch a credit card that offers up to four per cent bitcoin back on purchases.
12 June 2025
/startups
A former Adyen executive and an ex-UBS analyst have become the latest entrants into the increasingly crowned stablecoin infrastructure market, raising $22 million in seed founding for their startup, Noah.
The UK Government has passed the Data (Use and Access) Bill through the House of Parliament, paving the way for expansion of open banking and smart data sharing across multiple business sectors.
Berlin-based payment software company Payrails has raised $32 million in Series A funding
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