/Sibos
At Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Finextra spoke to BNY executive platform owner of payments platform Isabel Schmidt, and executive platform owner for treasury services Carl Slabicki, on everything AI, blockchain, and cross-border.
31 October 2025
/crypto
Coinbase is teaming up with Visa-owned open banking specialist Tink to enable crypto purchases via Pay by Bank in Germany.
/retail
SavvyMoney, a provider of financial wellness tech to banks, credit unions and fintechs, has secured a $225 million minority investment.
/markets
Shares in Shawbrook rise more than six per cent on the specialist lender's first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange.
30 October 2025
The European Central Bank says it could launch a digital euro pilot in 2027 ahead of a 2029 launch for the CBDC.
Mastercard is in late-stage talks to buy crypto and stablecoin infrastructure platform Zerohash for up to $2 billion, according to Fortune.
/people
Former Google and Standard Chartered executive Diana Layfield has been appointed CEO of UK digital bank Monzo, taking over from TS Anil, who is stepping down after five years in the role.
/cloud
The spotlight has once again been shone on the prominent role played by a small number of cloud computing providers after an outage suffered by Microsoft's Azure platform
/ai
UK startups and scaleups are being urged to address an absence of AI skills within their boardrooms, according to a recently published report
/security
National Australia Bank's digital unit Ubank has become the country's first lender to offers customers the option to ditch passwords in favour of passkeys for both app and online banking.
/wealth
Canada's Wealthsimple has raised C$750 million at a post-money valuation of C$10 billion in a funding round led Dragoneer Investment Group and GIC.
29 October 2025
Morgan Stanley has struck a deal to buy EquityZen, a trading platform for shares in private companies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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