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Monzo and Starling co-founder invests in UK fintech startup Monet

Monet, a financial cashflow startup targetting the creative industry sector, has secured an early-stage funding commitment of £17 million led by prominent UK banking executives ahead of closing its seed round this July.

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Nordea taps Mynt to roll out an expanse management system for SMEs across the Nordics

Swedish fintech Mynt has been selected by Nordea, the largest bank in the Nodics, to launch a business credit card and spend management service for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.

/crypto

Bank of England mulls shelving of digital pound

The Bank of England is considering shelving plans for the creation of a digital pound amid growing scepticism over the project’s benefits.

/crypto

SFO uses new powers to seize over £10,000 in bitcoin

The Serious Fraud Office has frozen equivalent to £10,865.76 in Bitcoin and £289.30 USDC belonging to Richard Yeowart, a suspect in its ongoing investigation into collapsed outside broadcast company Arena TV.

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Nasdaq Verafin unveils agentic AI AML workers

Nasdaq's anti-financial crime unit Verafin has launched a suite of agentic AI digital workers built to help banks with anti-money laundering compliance by automating low-value, high-volume processes.

/payments

Square joins S&P 500

Shares in Block rose on Monday as the Jack Dorsey-founded fintech joined the benchmark S&P 500 index.

/wealth

Monzo migrates investment accounts to Seccl

Monzo is to migrate its investment and pension product portfolio to Octopus-owned embedded investment platform Seccl.

/ai

CaixaBank develops an AI agent to help customers explore products in the app

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

ECB accelerates digital euro preparation work

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

Coinbase makes superapp play

Crypto platform Coinbase has rebranded its Wallet app as Base, consolidating payments, trading, chat and social features into a single, blockchain-based 'superapp'.

/payments

Visa and Mastercard face another UK class action suit over card fees

Visa and Mastercard are facing another multi-billion pound UK class action lawsuit for allegedly unlawful interchange fees.

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Trump expected to sign stablecoin regulation Genius Act into law

This week, the US House of Representatives also passed the Clarity Act and Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act.