/identity
Indians will be able to authenticate payments made through the country's Unified Payments Interface via facial recognition or fingerprints, according to Reuters.
2 hours
/people
OpenAI has acquired AI-powered personal finance app Roi in a deal that secures the services of the latter's CEO Sujith Vishwajith.
/inclusion
JS Group currently disperses funds such as bursaries, scholarships and other financial support to students.
5 hours
/ai
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a technology; it’s a credit risk. That’s the message from Moody’s Ratings in its latest update to the AI Corporate Heatmap, which assesses the impact of AI advances on corporate creditworthiness through 2030.
6 hours
/regulation
The EC is planning to move regulation of cryptocurrency firms, stock exchanges and clearing houses from national watchdogs to the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma).
17 hours
/payments
Lloyds says the barcode cash paying-in app feature it launched in August has already been used to pay in over £3 million at PayPoint high street locations.
Southeast Asian digital bank digital bank Yup has raised $32 million to build the region's version of Brazilian giant Nubank.
06 October 2025
/retail
UK-based neobank Monzo is reportedly set to resume its effort to break into the US banking sector.
Two major Indian banks have respectively appointed new chief executives.
/startups
Ukraine's financial services market is celebrating another unicorn after Fintech-IT Group, the tech company behind the one of the country's most popular online banking service, received an investment to push its valuation beyond $1bn.
/security
A majority of consumers believe it is harder to secure their information on digital platforms than their physical homes, according to recently published research.
/crypto
Walmart-backed fintech OnePay is working with Zerohash to bring cryptocurrency trading and custody to its app, according to CNBC.
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