/retail
Fiserv has signed a definitive agreement to buy StoneCastle Cash Management. Financial terms were not disclosed.
4 hours
/ai
Visa has launched a hub to help issuers and fintechs deliver commercial payment and embedded finance experiences.
OpenAI has joined forces with Stripe to let people make purchases from within ChatGPT.
9 hours
A host of banking and capital market players - including Swift, the DTCC and UBS - have closed out the second stage of a Chainlink-led project to use AI and blockchain technology to standardise and streamline corporate actions processing.
14 hours
/Sibos
In the opening plenary of Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, executives at Swift and leading German banks Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Bank introduced the themes of the conference and what can be accomplished on ‘the next frontier of global finance’.
/payments
Banco Santander has launched its buy now, pay later product, Zinia, in Spain, with an initial focus on installment payments on Amazon.
16 hours
Bank-to-bank payment network Swift is to develop a shared digital ledger with 30 member banks to test the use of blockchain technology for real-time cross-border payments.
19 hours
The UK's biggest banks are embarking on a pilot project to deliver the country's first live transactions of tokenised sterling deposits (GBTD).
29 September 2025
/wholesale
Deutsche Bank has carried out its first euro-denominated cross-border payment via Partior’s blockchain platform.
/devops
On Thursday, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) opened a digital yuan (e-CNY) international operations centre in Shanghai, in a move to drive CBDC innovation.
26 September 2025
/regulation
EBA Clearing has announced that the testing for its Fraud Pattern Anomaly Detection (FPAD) Verification of Payee (VoP) solution confirmed that it is ready to scale.
Asian fintech company WeLab has formed a strategic partnership with Google to drive AI-powered banking solutions across across Asia.
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