/payments
PayNearMe, a fintech targeting non-commerce businesses and their customers, has secured $50 million in Series E funding from Atlantic Vantage Point.
18 September 2025
/retail
Lloyds Banking Group will deploy VMware Cloud Foundation from Broadcom to support its data centre consolidation strategy.
17 September 2025
/security
Singapore is introducing new rules that will restrict access to banking services and mobile phone lines for convicted scam mules.
/ai
HSBC Private Bank is to roll out OpenAI's Large Language Model to client facing staff, investment counsellors and product specialists to provide quality market insight and personalised investment strategies to high net worth customers.
WorkFusion, a fintech building AI agents for financial crime compliance, has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Georgian.
/crypto
Santander's digital offering Openbank has begun letting its German customers buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency.
/markets
Trading app Robinhood is launching a fund designed to give retail investors access to private markets.
/crime
Fraud prevention and AML compliance specialist Seon has raised $80 million in a series C funding round led by Sixth Street Growth.
16 September 2025
Google has unveiled an open protocol designed to serve as the foundation needed to enable AI agents to transact payments on behalf of users and merchants.
As it faces up to a lawsuit from New York's attorney general for allegedly failing to protect users from "massive amounts of fraud," bank-backed P2P payments service Zelle has gone on the offensive, insisting that just 0.02% of all transactions result in a report of fraud or scam.
Klarna is to provide Apple Pay users with access to BNPL loans at instore checkouts in the UK and US.
Plaid has caved into demands by JPMorgan to pay for access to customer data, after the US bank accused aggregator firms of ‘massively taxing’ its systems with unnecessary pings.
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