/payments
Shares in Block rose on Monday as the Jack Dorsey-founded fintech joined the benchmark S&P 500 index.
21 July 2025
/wealth
Monzo is to migrate its investment and pension product portfolio to Octopus-owned embedded investment platform Seccl.
/ai
CaixaBank has launched a generative AI-based agent to help users of it mobile banking application learn details about products, compare the different available options, and choose which one best suits their needs.
/crypto
The European Central Bank is accelerating work on a digital euro to keep up with the "ambitious pace" set by EU leaders as the project's urgency increases in the face of geopolitical challenges including an increasingly hostile United States under Donald Trump.
Crypto platform Coinbase has rebranded its Wallet app as Base, consolidating payments, trading, chat and social features into a single, blockchain-based 'superapp'.
18 July 2025
Visa and Mastercard are facing another multi-billion pound UK class action lawsuit for allegedly unlawful interchange fees.
This week, the US House of Representatives also passed the Clarity Act and Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act.
/regulation
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has provided details of its plans to bolster protections for buy now, pay later borrowers from next year.
OpenAI is planning to integrate a payment checkout system into ChatGPT in a bid to boost revenues, according to the Financial Times.
17 July 2025
/people
Graham Fagan has been named as the new chief operating officer (COO) at Irish bank AIB.
/markets
UK fintech Wise is counting the cost of falling short of analysts' expectations after its latest quarterly results triggered a sharp fall in its share price despite a solid financial performance that saw most metrics increase.
/startups
Paris-based fintech Spiko has pulled in $22m after completing a series A funding round.
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