/people
Digital banking giant Revolut has appointed Frederic Oudea, former chief executive at Societe Generale, as chairman for its Western European operations.
05 September 2025
/sustainable
The Switzerland-based organisation, the Green Fintech Network, has published The Green Fintech Theory of Change report, outlining how fintech can drive the green transition.
/ai
Ant International's Antom unit has launched an agentic AI payments offering that supports both card-based and alternative methods.
PayPal and Venmo users in some countries are being offered early access to Perplexity's new AI-powered web browser.
/payments
The BIS Inovation Hub and the Bank of England have developed a prototype analytical tool to unlock the richer payments data derived from the ISO 20022 payments messaging protocol.
/identity
Digital identity wallet ID.me has hit a $2 billion valuation after raising $340 million across a funding round, combined with a credit facility.
04 September 2025
Lloyds Banking Group is reviewing staff performance metrics with the aim of axing chronic underperformers.
/retail
JPmorgan Chase is to launch its retail digital bank in Germany next year.
/cloud
Revolut has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal with Google Cloud to drive global growth.
/crypto
Boerse Stuttgart is rolling out Seturion, a pan-European, blockchain-based platform for the settlement of tokenized assets, within and across national borders.
Digital assets operations platform Utila has closed a $22 million Series A extension round, tripling its valuation in just six months as the stablecoin boom continues.
Lloyds’ Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey finds that UK financial firms are doubling down on AI as producivity surges.
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