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Chime to acquire Stride Bank for $590m

Chime to acquire Stride Bank for $590m

Chime, the Nasdaq-listed US FinTech, is set to acquire Stride Bank, N.A., its long-standing banking partner, for $590m as it moves to bring its...
Mastercard, Backbase push banks towards AI-native transformation

Mastercard, Backbase team up to accelerate AI-native banking

Mastercard, the global payments and technology company, and Backbase, the provider of an AI-native Banking Operating System, have partnered to help financial institutions move...
Climate risk exposes limits of capital market models

Climate risk exposes limits of capital market models

Ortec Finance has warned that folding climate change into capital market assumptions (CMAs) is not, on its own, enough to capture the true scale...
Vision Bank launches platform-led SME trade finance proposition

Vision Bank launches platform-led SME trade finance proposition

Vision Bank, the Abu Dhabi Global Market-headquartered Islamic lender wholly owned by GII Group, has launched a new SME financing proposition designed to improve...
UK payments infrastructure faces major redesign

UK payments infrastructure faces major redesign

The UK's retail payments infrastructure could be set for a major redesign, with the Retail Payments Infrastructure Board (RPIB) launching a consultation on how...
Netbacks vs capacity: energy trade's hidden tension

Netbacks vs capacity: energy trade’s hidden tension

As energy security climbs the agenda for markets worldwide, understanding what really drives shipping flows has become increasingly relevant, according to analysis from LSEG...
Embedded finance enters its next phase of growth

Embedded finance enters its next phase of growth

Embedded finance has spent the past decade bringing financial services closer to the customer. Its next phase could be about making those services intelligent...
TerraPay taps Deutsche Bank to widen cross-border payment reach

TerraPay taps Deutsche Bank to widen cross-border payment reach

TerraPay has partnered with Deutsche Bank to strengthen its cross-border payments infrastructure, gaining access to the bank’s correspondent banking network, payments capabilities and foreign...
280m identities could reshape Southeast Asia KYC

280m identities could reshape Southeast Asia KYC

Hopae Connect is expanding its identity verification network across Southeast Asia, adding the Philippines National ID and Indonesia’s NIK to its platform and giving...
Why tax needs one trusted source of data

Why tax needs one trusted source of data

Data is becoming increasingly central to how tax functions operate, but having more information does not necessarily mean having better information. For many organisations,...

News Stories

Over $600m was raised across 14 deals this week

It was another slow week for FinTech deals as the end of 2026 edges closer.  A total of $602m was raised across 14 FinTech deals...
KYCP adds API4ALL to sharpen corporate due diligence

KYCP adds API4ALL to sharpen corporate due diligence

Compliance teams facing growing pressure to uncover who really sits behind a corporate client now have another tool at their disposal. According to KYCP,...
Compliance gets faster but firms trust it less, CUBE finds

Compliance gets faster but firms trust it less, CUBE finds

Financial institutions are processing regulatory change at a much faster pace than a year ago, but their belief that this work is actually effective...

Zing365: Insurance broking must map out career paths

Zing365, an InsurTech-focused learning and development specialist, has called on insurance brokers to set out defined career routes, organised training and mentoring if they...
Agentcard secures $8m to let AI agents shop online

Agentcard secures $8m to let AI agents shop online

Agentcard, a payments firm that lets AI agents make purchases using their users’ own cards, has closed an $8m seed funding round to help...

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