/regulation
Barzillian digital banking giant Nubank has applied for a US national bank charter, furthering its international expansion ambitions.
01 October 2025
/Sibos
Demonstrated by UBS, Chainlink has introduced technology that enables financial institutions to use Swift messages to instruct on-chain token transfers, helping the messaging network become interoperable across nearly all blockchain environments.
/payments
A cash usage continues to dwindle, more than half of Brits now use mobile wallets for online and contactless payments.
/cloud
Bite Investments, a technology provider for the alternative investments sector, has secured $25 million in funding from NewSpring Growth.
/ai
PayOS and Mastercard have completed an autonomos agentic payment transaction using a Mastercard Agentic Token.
/crypto
Payments giant Stripe and corporate spend management player Brex have unveiled products that bring stablecoins closer to the mainstream.
30 September 2025
In the only Europe-centric session at Sibos in Frankfurt, Swift’s Marianne Demarchi led a conversation titled: “View from the Top: Securing Europe’s financial future - Resilience, autonomy, and global impact.”
/startups
Charlie Javice has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding JP Morgan Chase in the $175 million deal to buy her fintech Frank.
Following the popular session on building tomorrow’s bank at Sibos 2024, McKinsey’s Megha Kansal moderated a follow-up session on the year’s developments in Frankfurt.
The Emerging Payments Association of Asia (EPAA) has released a report on how quantum computing will exacerbate the payments fraud landscape, and what financial institutions need to be doing to prepare before quantum slips into the mainstream.
Visa is promising financial institutions a long-overdue upgrade to the movement of capital in cross-border payments via a pre-funding stablecoin platform.
Bank of America has rolled out an AI assistant to help staff deal with complex queries from institutional users of its Global Payments Solutions product.
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