/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.
4 hours
/startups
The UK's Regulatory Innovation Office is to work with the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum to cut red tape for fintechs as they navigate complex regulation.
11 hours
/ai
BBVA is deepening its relationship with Google Cloud through the deployment of Google Workspace with Gemini, as part of the global bank’s AI adoption strategy.
03 July 2025
/regulation
French neobank Qonto has applied for a banking licence after reaching 600,000 customers across Europe.
/payments
The uptake of tokenised bank liabilities and shared ledgers in transaction banking services could lower cross-border currency costs by 12.5%, saving businesses more than US$50 billion by 2030, according to a report by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and Ant International.
Bank of New York Mellon has given dozens of AI agent 'digital employees' their own logins and will soon provide them with email accounts.
/crypto
Digital asset outfit Paxos has launched its Global Dollar (USDG) stablecoin across the European Union.
MiniPay and Noah have joined forces on non-custodial stablecoin payments that connect global banking rails with local payment methods.
AllUnity, a joint venture between asset manager DWS, market maker Flow Traders, and blockchain firm Galaxy, has been granted an E-Money Institution (EMI) licence by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)
UK-based money transfer giant Wise has applied to be directly regulated by the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and create a national trust bank.
02 July 2025
A trio of bank groups has written to the US Department of the Treasury urging it to move quickly in ditching paper cheques for electronic payment options.
/security
Mastercard is rolling out Account Intelligence Reissuance, a GenAI-based fraud prevention service, in the Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (Eemea) region.
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