/crypto
The UK's financial watchdog has ended its four year ban on the use of crypto-based exchange traded notes (ETNs) by retail investors in a move that could add 20% to the UK's crypto market
08 October 2025
Crypto giant Coinbase is the latest fintech to apply to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national trust company charter.
/inclusion
Big Issue, a magazine sold by the homeless across the UK, is working with open banking provider fumopay to pilot a QR code-based way for vendors to take payments.
/people
Revolut's billionaire co-founder and CEO Nik Storonsky has changed his residency from the UK to the United Arab Emirates.
07 October 2025
/identity
Indians will be able to authenticate payments made through the country's Unified Payments Interface via facial recognition or fingerprints, according to Reuters.
OpenAI has acquired AI-powered personal finance app Roi in a deal that secures the services of the latter's CEO Sujith Vishwajith.
JS Group currently disperses funds such as bursaries, scholarships and other financial support to students.
/ai
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a technology; it’s a credit risk. That’s the message from Moody’s Ratings in its latest update to the AI Corporate Heatmap, which assesses the impact of AI advances on corporate creditworthiness through 2030.
/regulation
The EC is planning to move regulation of cryptocurrency firms, stock exchanges and clearing houses from national watchdogs to the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma).
/payments
Lloyds says the barcode cash paying-in app feature it launched in August has already been used to pay in over £3 million at PayPoint high street locations.
Southeast Asian digital bank digital bank Yup has raised $32 million to build the region's version of Brazilian giant Nubank.
06 October 2025
/retail
UK-based neobank Monzo is reportedly set to resume its effort to break into the US banking sector.
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