/crypto
Mastercard and Coinbase are battling it out to acquire stablecoin infrastructure platform BVNK in a deal that could be worth up to $2.5 billion, according to Fortune.
10 October 2025
/wholesale
JPMorgan Chase staffers will have to scan their fingerprints or eyes, rather than their ID badges, to access the bank's new New York headquarters.
/wealth
SoftBank Group is reportedly asking global banks to borrow $5 billion as founder Masayoshi Son pours funding into AI investments.
/regulation
US semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm is under investigation in China for allegedly breaching antitrust laws for its acquisition of Autotalks.
/ai
Klarna has signed on to use Google Cloud's full AI stack, from infrastructure, to platform, to models.
Citi is the latest big-name traditional financial services player to invest in stablecoin infrastructure platform BVNK.
Commerzbank, Macquarie Bank and insurance player Signal Iduna are among the first firms to use Google Cloud's new Gemini Enterprise agentic platform.
09 October 2025
/payments
Routefusion, an Austin-based financial infrastructure provider that helps platforms and FIs embed cross-border payments and multi-currency account capabilities, has raised $26.5 million in Series A funding.
UK-based fintech Wise has continued its push into the Indian market with the planned launch of what it claims is the Asian nation's first 'travel' card.
/markets
The layoffs of federal workers in the US as a result of the government shutdown could create numerous blind spots in the regulation of the country's banking sector, says the CEO of a fintech startup.
Payment firms have reacted with disappointment to the news that a plan promoted by the G20 to make cross-border payments more efficient is set to miss its first deadline.
JPMorgan Chase invests $2 billion a year developing AI, with the technology saving the bank about the same amount, according to CEO Jamie Dimon.
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