/ai
Ant International's Antom unit has launched an agentic AI payments offering that supports both card-based and alternative methods.
05 September 2025
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
/people
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.
/startups
Pave Finance, a provider of AI-powered, institutional-grade, personalised wealth management software, has raised $14 million in seed funding.
/markets
BT is offloading its financial information business Radianz to Transaction Network Services (TNS).
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