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The three‑digit hotline 159, launched by Stop Scams UK in 2021, gives UK consumers a fast way to verify suspicious banking calls or texts. It links callers to the fraud teams of more than 99% of retail bank accounts, and over a million calls have been recorded since its debut. The service aims to interrupt impersonation scams, which have risen 8% year‑on‑year to over four million incidents. While 159 covers banking fraud, pension and investment scams remain outside its scope, requiring separate reporting channels.
Credit Karma has just rolled out mortgage broker services to its users (*refinances only). "Credit Karma Home Loans" allows users to shop over 40 financial institutions and 1,500 loan products. Will be powered by Better Mortgage's Tinman AI Platform.
Superior Credit Union has renewed its long‑term partnership with Mahalo Banking, extending the use of Mahalo’s Thoughtful Banking® platform. The renewal follows measurable gains in operational efficiency and a steady rise in online banking registrations. Mahalo’s core‑centric architecture delivers real‑time...
Broadridge Financial Solutions has partnered with Crypto.com to embed cryptocurrency trading into its NYFIX order‑routing platform, extending the service to over 2,200 buy‑side and sell‑side firms worldwide. The integration uses the industry‑standard FIX protocol, allowing institutional brokers to send crypto...
Solaris' poll of 4,000 German online‑banking users finds banks are the most trusted institution for safeguarding AI‑processed personal data, with 45.4% preferring banks over insurers and government. Trust is strongest among 18‑29‑year‑olds, where 51.5% rank banks highest. One‑third of respondents...
Digital platforms increasingly rely on automated billing schedules, integrated payment gateways, and real-time monitoring to eliminate recurring payment errors. Automated schedules ensure charges occur on time, while integrated gateways provide secure, synchronized transaction data, reducing manual entry. Real‑time error detection,...
Interchange fees are the charges that a merchant’s bank pays to the card‑issuing bank for each card transaction, typically ranging from 0.2% to 2% of the purchase amount. In the European Economic Area, regulation caps these fees at 0.2% for...
Progcap’s new ProgShakti program has disbursed over ₹10,000 crore in unsecured working‑capital loans to women‑led MSMEs across India. Credit limits for women borrowers have risen 105 percent, and repeat financing now exceeds 90 percent, indicating strong trust in the platform. Women entrepreneurs constitute...
GFA Exchange, a UK fintech portfolio intelligence platform, now hosts live data on 10,000 lower‑mid‑market businesses, covering the top 1,000 firms across all Industrial Strategy sectors plus Real Estate and Retail. The rollout arrives as the UK prepares for AIFMD 2,...
FutureVault announced its AI Advisor Insights Engine, an embedded private‑LLM solution that converts client documents stored in its digital vaults into real‑time intelligence. The engine extracts, structures, and links data across tax, estate, insurance, and portfolio files, generating actionable insights...
Wizard announced a partnership with Stripe to accelerate the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), an open standard that links AI shopping agents with ecommerce platforms. The collaboration will streamline merchant onboarding, enable secure checkout via Shared Payment Tokens, and let retailers...
PayPal announced Enrique Lores, the former HP chief who has overseen major supply‑chain and split‑up initiatives, as its new CEO and president. The appointment comes as the company’s branded checkout growth slumped to 1% year‑over‑year in Q4, far below the...
Meta Platforms announced that, starting April 1, a subset of advertisers will no longer be able to pay with credit cards and must switch to monthly invoicing or direct bank debits. The company did not disclose the spending thresholds or the...
TradeStation Securities announced an integration with Global Financial AI’s Financial AI Platform, linking AI‑driven strategy design to TradeStation’s brokerage execution. The partnership lets traders use natural‑language prompts to create, test, benchmark, and optimize multi‑asset strategies across equities and options. The...
RegTech vendors are merging their offerings into larger, unified platforms that cover surveillance, reporting, identity and risk functions. Proponents argue that consolidation reduces operational fragmentation, delivers economies of scale, and strengthens security through enterprise‑grade infrastructure. Critics counter that platform concentration...
KBC, Belgium’s largest insurance‑banking group, has appointed Geneva‑based fintech Taurus as its custody partner for a newly launched regulated crypto trading service. The offering, introduced in February, lets self‑directed investors buy and sell Bitcoin and Ether on an execution‑only basis....
At FIN/SUM 2026, BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda outlined how AI and blockchain are reshaping the financial ecosystem and reaffirmed central banks' role as the anchor of trust. He highlighted the programmability of DeFi, the potential of AI‑driven analytics, and the...
In this episode, hosts Prima Katz, Kyle Cook (Principal Product Manager at Ixopay) and Don Apgar (Javelin Strategy) discuss how tokenization has evolved from a security fix to a strategic tool for payment performance, connectivity, and merchant autonomy. They explain...
In this episode of The Signal, Jess Kirkpatrick, Vice President of Risk and Fraud at Worldpay (now part of Global Payments), explains why fraud prevention can’t be a set‑and‑forget function for platforms. She highlights common misconceptions—such as relying solely on...
Bloomberg Index Services announced that its Bloomberg FX Fixings (BFIX) benchmark will incorporate transaction data from Euronext FX’s spot foreign‑exchange and precious‑metals markets. The addition expands BFIX’s data pool, aiming to enhance the benchmark’s robustness, transparency, and representativeness across global currency...
Tickblaze announced a partnership to embed CME Group futures market data into its trading platform, delivering both Level 1 top‑of‑book pricing and Level 2 depth‑of‑market information. The integration supplies real‑time, exchange‑sourced data directly to traders while Tickblaze manages entitlement, reporting and compliance...
Mastercard is introducing a virtual CFO built on generative AI as the first offering of its “Virtual C‑suite” for small and medium‑sized enterprises. The service will be delivered through banks, accounting platforms and software partners and will provide cash‑flow risk...
According to BVNK and YouGov’s Stablecoin Utility Report, 79% of African crypto holders own or have recently held stablecoins—the highest rate globally and well above the 54% average. The survey of 4,658 respondents across 15 African countries shows 95% would...
Prembly, a Nigerian digital‑security firm, has unveiled FraudLens, an open‑source fraud‑intelligence bank built on millions of identity‑verification checks. The platform aggregates fraud events from banks, fintechs and other partners, offering a publicly accessible repository that starts with Nigeria and aims...
Divest, the Nigerian fintech known for crypto‑to‑cash conversion, has introduced Money Xchange, a cross‑border remittance service embedded within its existing app. The product currently supports transfers from Nigeria to Kenya, Ghana and South Africa with upfront rate locking and no...
Adlore Business Enterprise launched a live pilot of Jollof Boss, a conversational commerce platform that merges the WhatsApp Cloud API with Paystack payments to let Nigerian SMEs browse products, place orders and pay within chat. The test processed ten real orders,...
How you define AI's ROI should determine what you measure. IBM suggests that these users widen their search and acknowledge that agentic AI’s ROI should have many components beyond the one or two usually used. It's likely that many of the...
Stablecoins are everywhere. If you haven't bought your ticket to @TheStablecon, what are you waiting for? EMEA - May 19 & 20 USA - Sep 9 to 11 (🎟️prices go up next week)
eBay UK has teamed with finance provider Liberis to launch Flexible Growth Financing, a new product under the Seller Capital programme that will be available to eligible UK sellers from 6 April 2026. The offering provides data‑driven, on‑demand working capital with limits...
Just joining the complex Apple Card ecosystem? It's smart to learn how to move your money around, including funding your Apple Cash. Here's a primer that explains how everything interrelates and how to maximize your rewards: https://t.co/ZPP9OBmIZw #applecard #applecash #banking...
"On BNB Chain, which handles roughly 40% of global stablecoin transactions by count, 82% of stablecoin transfers are under $1,000." » How Stablecoins Became Parallel Currencies In Crisis Economies https://t.co/4VBDUoAAhr
SumUp has launched a free, in‑platform accounting solution for UK merchants, powered by Sage, to help them meet the Making Tax Digital (MTD) income‑tax requirements that take effect in April 2026. The tool automates income‑tax calculations and filing, embedding compliance...
Global digital services rely on infrastructure that remains invisible to most organizations. Space links and subsea cables sustain data flows across continents, and their resilience conditions financial transactions, cloud operations, and supply coordination Microblog @antgrasso https://t.co/FxMtibGIrb
ICYMI - .@Evervault raises $25M to scale its ‘secure-by-default’ approach to payment data encryption https://t.co/69Ndf6v1yM @SiliconANGLE @Mike_Wheatley “Quite simply, dealing with this is not their core business, it’s just a distraction from the real business…” - #NextGenApps https://t.co/b0LbyzoIoh
FinScan has partnered with Nexus AML to deliver a data‑first AML solution that blends real‑time data cleansing with AI‑driven operational services. The alliance targets the chronic data‑quality problem that 59% of compliance professionals say consumes most of their time. By...
The Financial Conduct Authority has issued final rules and guidance under Policy Statement 25/21 that overhaul the safeguarding regime for payments and e‑money firms. The new requirements take effect on 7 May 2026, compelling firms to redesign client‑asset segregation, capital buffers, and governance...
Wickes has introduced a buy‑now, pay‑later (BNPL) service for its TradePro customers through a partnership with Berlin‑based fintech Billie. The new option lets tradespeople purchase materials online or via the TradePro app and defer payment for 30 or 60 days,...
Commerzbank has partnered with AI‑fraud specialist Hawk to boost its anti‑money‑laundering capabilities. The collaboration deploys Hawk’s “AML AI Extended Risk Model,” which layers explainable AI on top of the bank’s existing rule‑based compliance framework. Connected via a dedicated integration layer,...
Tandem Bank has named Stephen Jones, a veteran of UK banking, as its new chair. Jones currently serves as executive chair of investment banking at Panmure Liberum and previously held senior roles at Santander, Barclays, and UK Finance. He succeeds Paul Pester, who...
Eugene Ludwig, former Clinton cabinet official, founded Cari to create a bank‑centric network for tokenized deposits that are FDIC‑insured and faster than traditional transfers. The startup has secured five regional banks—KeyCorp, Huntington, Old National, First Horizon and M&T—as design partners...
Uzbek fintech platform Uzum secured a $131.5 million investment led by Oman’s sovereign wealth funds, lifting its valuation 53% to $2.3 billion. The round combines $81.5 million in equity and $50 million in convertible notes as the company eyes a $250‑300 million pre‑IPO raise in...
Aspire General Insurance has partnered with AI platform Liberate to launch an AI‑powered First Notice of Loss (FNOL) system, integrated with its existing Snapsheet claims management tool. Policyholders can report incidents via the AI voice agent Nicole or a web...
Credit Karma is leveraging AI and its massive consumer‑financial dataset to evolve from a credit‑score provider into a personalized financial assistant. With 140 million members and over 80,000 data points per user, the platform now offers automated tax filing, next‑best‑action recommendations,...
Robinhood announced a family‑focused suite of products designed to become a financial superapp for households. The upcoming Family Hub will let users group accounts by family member, customize views, and assign granular permissions, while custodial accounts let parents invest for...
The article outlines when a Canadian business must register as a Money Services Business (MSB) with FINTRAC, detailing the specific activities—foreign exchange, fund remittance, virtual‑currency dealing, and crowdfunding—that trigger regulatory oversight. It distinguishes domestic MSBs from foreign MSBs (FMSBs) and...
Where does AI-first InsurTech stand in France ? → https://t.co/I7HgWDOnBV That's a question we discussed recently, together with Alexandre Pengloan, following an analysis of the InsurTech dynamic in France. https://t.co/2QX0LCBiTo
TransUnion has teamed with Google Cloud to launch an AI‑driven analytics agent that fuses TransUnion's credit data with Google’s Vertex AI and BigQuery services. The new solution delivers real‑time credit intelligence, cutting underwriting decision times by roughly half while boosting...
India's retail broking sector saw active users rise to 45.4 million in February, a 350 k increase from January. Groww maintained its lead, adding 2.65 lakh new clients and reaching a 28.03% market share with 12.75 million users. Emerging platform Dhan crossed the 1 million‑user...
Access to credit remains elusive for most South African small businesses, with over 85% of firms earning under R1 million facing high rejection rates. A Forrester‑Experian study shows that 70% of senior lenders believe machine learning can improve risk accuracy and...
Weaver Fintech, the former Homechoice International, posted a 23% revenue increase to R5.5 billion for FY 2025, propelling its shares above 9% higher. The fintech arm delivered R3.43 billion in revenue, a 36% jump, and accounted for 93% of the group’s trading profit,...
