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Alpaca, a US-based brokerage infrastructure provider, has raised US$150 million in a Series D funding round led by Drive Capital, valuing the company at US$1.15 billion and confirming its status as a unicorn. Drive Capital…
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View MoreTorq, a security operations company focused on AI-driven automation, has closed a US$140 million Series D funding round,…
At the end of December 2025, DZ BANK received MiCAR authorisation from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority…
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has published a new supervisory communication outlining how it assesses the…
Norway’s central bank, Norges Bank, has assessed whether introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) is necessary to…
Anthropic, a US-based AI company, has signed a term sheet for a US$10 billion funding round at a…
Rain, a US-based infrastructure provider for stablecoin payments, has raised US$250 million in a Series C funding round…
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are a fast-growing sector, propelled by rapid advances in large language models (LLMs), declining…
Danske Bank has appointed Dr Fiona Browne as its first Head of AI, with responsibility for the strategic…
Stablecoins are no longer just for a tool for cryptocurrency traders, and are now increasingly being adopted for…
Ripple has secured approval for its Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license and Cryptoasset Registration from the UK’s Financial…
Finshape, a Prague-based provider of digital banking solutions, has appointed Neil Budd as its new Chief Executive Officer.…
Fiserv has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to integrate AI more deeply into its development platforms and…
Apple and Chase have announced that Chase will become the new issuer of Apple Card. The transition is…
Swiss software company Adnovum has acquired IT service providers iSPIN and Koch IT, consolidating its capabilities in secure…
PayPal has announced a partnership with Microsoft to support the launch of Copilot Checkout within Copilot, allowing users…
In 2026, artificial intelligence (AI) will move from experimentation to enterprise-scale impact in banking, enabling faster servicing, improved…
In 2025, online fraud continued to proliferate, driven by identity fraud, advances in artificial intelligence (AI), and increasingly…
Swiss21.org, a Swiss provider of digital tools and services for SMEs, has appointed Fabian Schläpfer as Managing Director,…
Lloyds has completed the first UK transaction using Tokenised Deposits, marking a global debut for sterling deposits on…
Zilch has signed an agreement to acquire Fjord Bank, a Lithuania-based bank with approximately US$120 million in assets,…
BVNK has announced that it has secured direct access to the EU’s Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) scheme…
Barclays has made a strategic investment in Ubyx, a US-based clearing system for digital money, including tokenised deposits…
bunq, Europe’s second-largest neobank, has formally applied for a US de novo banking license with the Office of…
Nuvei and FreedomPay have announced a partnership to provide enterprise merchants with a unified payments solution for both…












