/people
Lloyds Banking Group has hired an executive from Amazon Web Services as its first director of artificial intelligence andd analytics.
05 August 2024
/crypto
French startup Next Generation has revived a euro-pegged stablecoin, EURT, that was suspended in 2017 due to a lack of regulatory frameworks.
/security
More than 200 cooperative and regional rural banks were briefly cut off from India's retail payments system last week by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) amid concerns that C-Edge Technologies had been hit by a ransomware attack.
/markets
The SME Finance Taskforce has released its coalition plan to boost the UK economy by speeding up lending and access to finance for 5.5 million SMEs.
02 August 2024
/retail
Freetrade has announced it is leaving the Swedish market to focus its resources on UK self-directed investment market.
/sustainable
Sustainable Finance Live 2024 kicks off on 8th October at Events@No6 in London.
We’re excited to go live with Finextra’s new website next week.
/inclusion
Aviva, a Mexican "phygital" financial platform for the underbanked and micro businesses, has raised $5.5 million in seed funding.
Hong Kong's ZA Bank is taking financial fitness to a new level with the roll out of a 'Walk to Earn' programme for bonus savings rates.
/startups
Bourgeois Boheme (BoBo), a European fintech targeting high-net-worth individuals with the promise of instant transactions of up to €1 million, has closed a €6.5 million seed round led by Graphit Lifestyle.
01 August 2024
/payments
The European Central Bank is inviting experts from the mobile tech industry to advise on the development of an offline model for digital euro payments.
As the banking industry chafes against upcoming rules governing payback to victims of authorised push payment fraud, the Payment Systems Regulator has released new data which shows that reimbursement for victims still depends largely on who they bank with.
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