UK FS sector warns of risks from lack of shared AI governance standard

Senior leaders across financial services have warned that the UK lacks a shared standard for governing AI in practice, leaving firms to solve the same oversight problems independently as adoption ...

Celtic Bank selects Casca to power SBA lending programme

Celtic Bank, a top-ten U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) 7(a) lender since 2013, today announced a partnership with Casca, the first AI-native loan origination platform for commercial lending.

SoftPOS is moving in-store payments onto smartphones — what does that change for merchants?

They need to quickly work out how they can make payments faster, smarter, and invisible, while also balancing trust and ...

CVC mulls $9bn bid for Italian fintech Nexi

Italy-based payments company Nexi is reportedly an acquisition target for US private equity group CVC, a development which ...

FIS introduces platfrom to give banks control over digital money

FIS (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial technology, today announced Lyriq, a platform that enables banks to issue, manage, and settle their own digital money- including tokenized deposits and ...

DTCC and SSImple automate standing settlement instructions ahead of Europe's move to T+1

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced a collaboration with SSImple to help ...

OnePay to launch validator on Tempo blockchain

OnePay, the consumer fintech trusted by millions of Americans to make money better, and Tempo, the payments-first Layer-1 blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, today announced a partnership ...

Sardine and Modulr bring real-time fraud detection to automated payments

Sardine, the leading agentic risk platform to fight financial crime, today announced a partnership with Modulr, the payments automation platform built to scale.

Visa expands Agentic Ready programme to Asia Pacific and Latin America

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) today announced the expansion of its global Agentic Ready program to clients in Asia Pacific and Latin America. First launched with banks and issuing partners across Europe, ...

LCH picks Atos for cloud migration

Atos, a global leader of AI-powered digital transformation, announces it has signed a three-year contract with LCH SA, the global clearing house based in Paris, to assist LCH SA with the migration of ...

Visa adds more blockchains to stablecoin settlement pilot

Today, Visa (NYSE: V) announced that it is adding five blockchains to its global stablecoin settlement pilot, expanding how issuers and acquirers can settle with the network.

KuCoin EU appoints AML officer

KuCoin EU, the MiCAR-licensed digital asset platform headquartered in Vienna, today announced a significant strengthening of its anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance capabilities with the ...