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