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Citi partners Coinbase on digital asset payments for institutional clients

Citi is teaming up with Coinbase to bring digital asset payment capabilities to the Wall Street giant's institutional clients.

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/crime

AFP: BMO, Affirm on deepfakes, downtime and demand for a crisis-ready culture

At AFP 2025 in Boston, Larry Zelvin, executive VP and head of the financial crimes unit, BMO; Sarah McMorris, CTP, lead, treasury operations, Affirm; and Marlys Green, director, treasury controller, PDS Health, took to the stage to explore the profound shift in the threat landscape due to AI-enabled cybercrime.

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/crypto

IBM launches digital asset platform

IBM has launched a platform for financial institutions, governments, and corporations to securely manage and scale their digital asset operations.

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/crypto

Modern Treasury buys stablecoin platform Beam

Payments orchestration platform Modern Treasury is expanding into stablecoins through the acquisition of Beam. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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/ai

PayPal integrates Mastercard Agent Pay into wallet

Mastercard's agentic payments platform is being integrated into PayPal's wallet to allow AI agents to complete transactions on behalf of users.

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/people

UBS reshuffles top ops roles

Swiss bank UBS has announced a series of changes to its executive team including a reshuffle of its operations and technology roles.

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/wealth

Custody banks embrace tokenisation

Global custodians are leading the race in the adoption of tokenisation, according to a recently released survey.

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/regulation

Bunq secures US broker dealer licence

European challenger bank bunq has been approved by US regulator FINRA to act as a broker dealer in the US market.

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/payments

Zelle taps stablecoins to go international

US bank-backed P2P payments service Zelle says it will use stablecoins to enable users to make cross-border payments.

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/crypto

JPMorgan to allow crypto as collateral - Bloomberg

JPMorgan Chase is set to allow institutional clients use bitcoin and ether holdings as collateral for loans by the end of the year, according to Bloomberg.

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/regulation

UK vows to help innovative FS firms with new scale-up unit

The UK government is opening a "scale-up unit" designed to support and guide innovative fast-growing fintechs, banks and insurers.

24 October 2025

/startups

EBAday 2026: Fintech Zone applications now open

Are you a fintech startup ready to showcase your innovation to Europe’s leading payments and transaction banking executives? The Fintech Zone at EBAday 2026 is your opportunity to do just that, and applications are now open.

24 October 2025