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Banking and Fintech

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Banking and Fintech

Huntington Bank partners Google Cloud for AI-powered small business operating system

The Huntington National Bank has unveiled an AI-powered operating system built with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise platform.

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

FCA calls for disclaimers on AI financial advice

The UK's financial services watchdog is calling on AI providers to issue disclaimers for services that provide financial advice to consumer…

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

Zilch to move to new London HQ

UK payments fintech unicorn Zilch has announced details of its new base in London which will more than double the capacity of current HQ as…

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Banking and Fintech

BofA called in 1000 contractors to patch flaws found by Mythos

Bank of America brought in 1000 contractors to support 3000 internal staff to patch software flaws uncovered by Anthropic's Mythos model ea…

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Bank of America spent millions on anti-money-laundering tech, but not enough to avoid a $1.2B fine

Bank of America has had to spend big on IT in response to an AI security audit and findings that its anti-money-laundering (AML) controls w…

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

Finextra & ACI Worldwide launch global survey report: ‘Payments 2030: The Payoff Year’

The latest Finextra survey report, designed to help financial institutions prepare for the road to 2030, is now available to download.

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Banking and Fintech

ECB approves Unicredit's bid for control of Commerzbank

Italian bank Unicredit has secured approval from the European Central Bank (ECB) to take a controlling stake in Germany's Commerzbank.

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Banking and Fintech

EBAday 2027: Fintech Zone applications now open

Are you an early-stage fintech ready to put your innovation in front of Europe's leading banking and payments executives?

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Banking and Fintech

Deutsche Bank rolls out on-premise AI system

Germany's Deutsche Bank has implemented an AI platform across its capital markets and investment banking teams in Europe and North America.

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

Farsight and Ornn partner for AI-powered banking

Farsight, the platform helping global financial services firms become AI-native, today announced a partnership with Ornn, which builds fina…

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Banking and Fintech

The agent-to-agent economy is closer than you think

Stripe recently acquired AI routing platform OpenRouter for a reported $7.5 billion, making it one of the largest venture-backed AI startup…

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

HSBC launches gen Z education programme

HSBC Private Bank has launched a global educational programme for the heirs of ultra-high net worth (UHNW) clients to help them prepare to …

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Banking and Fintech

AI-native payments platform Movere launches

A collection of banking and fintech veterans has unveiled Movere, an AI-native payments platform for businesses.

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Banking and Fintech

Mastercard and BVNK bring fiat and stablecoin payments together in global money platform

Mastercard has launched a platform that brings together its global payments capabilities with the stablecoin infrastructure of its recently…

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Banking and Fintech

Lack of financial confidence driving consumers to AI assistants

A significant number of UK banking consumers are turning to AI assistants out of a sense of embarrassment and a fear of being judged for a …

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Banking and Fintech

Spanish banks arrange syndicated finance on blockchain

Two Spanish banks, Santander and BBVA, and utility company Iberdrola, are claiming a blockchain first after arranging a syndicated financin…

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Banking and Fintech

JPMorgan Chase blocks outside AI agents from directly accessing customer accounts

Weeks after the launch of Meta's Muse AI assistant, Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan Chase is not going to allow outside agents to directly access…

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Banking and Fintech

BoE and IMF warn of cyber threat to banking system

Such is the concern about cyber risks, that consumers could revert to keeping their money in a shoebox under the bed rather than depositing…

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

BoA fined $1.2bn over "egregious" AML deficiencies

Bank of America (BoA) has been fined $1.2bn for its "deficient and ineffective" anti-money laundering (AML) process as well as "egregious a…

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

Spanish banks report 150% spike in fraud

Fraud from stolen devices has surged in Spain according to recently published research.

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Banking and Fintech

LHV Bank names CEO

UK-based digital banking app LHV Bank has appointed former NatWest executive Damian Thompson as its chief executive officer and executive d…

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Banking and Fintech

Latvia enters EU fintech race

Latvia is making a push for EU fintech hub status in a battle with fellow Baltic states Lithuania and Estonia.

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Banking and Fintech

Bahrain central bank to treble tech budget

The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) plans to increase its investment in technology by threefold over the next three years as part of a plan t…

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Banking and Fintech

Pepkor's $1.3bn fintech deal comes under shareholder scrutiny

South African retailer Pepkor is facing complaints from directors and investors over a deal to merge its fintech arm with a rival company.

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Banking and Fintech

OCR Studio and FinOn partner for payments onboarding

OCR Studio, a developer of identity document verification and bank card scanning solutions, and FinOn, a provider of modular payment infras…

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Banking and Fintech

FIS launches agentic AI suite for the office of the CFO

Banking technology vendor FIS has built an agentic AI suite designed to help CFOs manage collections, liquidity, risk and cash flow.

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Banking and Fintech

Sibos 2026: Trust and collaboration at 'machine speed' needed to fight banking industry threats

Sibos 2026 in Miami featured several 'Big Issue Debate' sessions, but one with an unwieldy name captured the attention of many attendees: '…

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Banking and Fintech

Investment research spend flatlines despite AI advancements

Substantive Research, the research and market data discovery and pricing analytics provider, today publishes the findings of its latest sur…

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

AvaTrade to acquire majority of FXCM's business

AvaTrade, a leading global online trading broker, today announced it has agreed to acquire the majority of FXCM Group’s business, one of th…

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Banking and Fintech
Banking and Fintech

ING opens flagship store in Madrid

ING has inaugurated its new flagship in Madrid, a space that reflects the evolution of the bank in Spain, where it now serves more than fou…

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