/crime
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has fined neobank Monzo £21,091,300 over its "inadequate" anti-financial crime systems and controls that were in place between October 2018 and August 2020
08 July 2025
/startups
Gradient Labs, a startup creating AI agents for the financial services industry and founded by former Monzo alumni, has raised $13 million.
/payments
Mastercard has joined forces with self-service payment portal Pay4You to pitch a tail spend management offering to firms in Europe.
The European Payments Council is seeking Directory Service Providers to help with checking routing algorithms that may be used by Verification of Payee (VoP) scheme participants.
07 July 2025
Five big banks in Belgium have joined the European Payments Initiative (EPI) with the intention of rolling out the Wero digital wallet and instant account-to-account (A2A) payment application to customers in the first half of next year.
BNP Paribas Personal Finance is to run its third successive UK Fintech incubator programme, seeking out startups with Gen AI applications applicable to the financial services sector.
/ai
As artificial intelligence reshapes the business landscape, fintechs stand poised to usher in a fresh wave of disruption as the industry emerges from a prolonged slump.
/retail
London-headquartered digital bank Zopa is opening an office in Manchester as it bids to create a 500-strong workforce in the city.
/crypto
A UK judge has sentenced two men to a combined 12 years in prison for a £1.5 million cryptocurrency fraud.
04 July 2025
/markets
As the 9 July tariff deadline looms, US President Donald Trump has said that rates could be up to 70% for certain counties.
/inclusion
Findings from a survey conducted by The Payments Association (TPA) highlighted the need for further LGBTQIA+ inclusion in financial services.
/devops
Raoul Herborg, managing director, central bank digital currency (CBDC) solutions at Giesecke and Devrient (G+D) spoke to Finextra on their release of a recent survey on CBDC progress worldwide, and what we can expect from CBDCs in the coming years.
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