/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.
21 July 2025
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
/payments
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.
/ai
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.
/wholesale
US Bank has completed its first trade finance collection transaction using the WaveBL electronic trade documentation platform.
Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Amazon and Google, has launched a tool to help finance professionals analyse markets, conduct research, and make investment decisions with its Claude models.
16 July 2025
Barclays Bank has been fined £42 million by the Financial Conduct Authority for two cases of "poor handling" of money laundering risks.
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