Iwoca closes debt facility amid £1bn sale speculation

Amid reports it is planning a £1 billion sale later this year, British SME lender iwoca has closed a £250 million debt ...

Why Verification Is a Critical Bridge Against Fraud, but Not a Silver Bullet

Taking time out of EBAday 2026, Jonathan Cardwell, Business Development Lead at Banfico, joined FinextraTV to discuss the ...

Why are financial services firms anxious about the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill?

With cyberattacks becoming increasingly damaging, sophisticated, and widespread, the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience ...

Zimbabwe regulator approves seven fintechs for sandbox

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe has given the green light to a number of fintechs seeking to participate ...

Apple partners Klarna for new hardware leasing programme

Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, today announced it would be the leasing provider behind the Apple Upgrade program, a new hardware leasing option available from Apple in ...

FCA and BofE appoint members to Transaction and Post-trade Reporting Harmonisation Taskforce

The FCA and Bank of England (Bank) have appointed members to their Transaction and Post-trade Reporting Harmonisation Taskforce.

Connexus Credit Union partners Alacriti for real-time payments

Connexus Credit Union has expanded its payment capabilities with the launch of Send and Receive on the RTP network and the FedNow Service through Alacriti, a leading provider of cloud-based payment ...

Digitec launches hub for connectivity to multiple market data providers

Digitec, a leading provider of multi-asset pricing technology and workflow automation, today announced the launch of D3 DataHub, a managed market data distribution platform. Designed to simplify and ...

Fenergo launches Fen-AI to bring governed AI to client lifecycle management

Fenergo, the leading provider of digital solutions for Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and client lifecycle management (CLM), today announced the launch of Fen-AI, its agentic AI ...

Singapore's MAS and ABS set up taskforce to boost cyber resiliance against AI-driven threats

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) today announced the establishment of the AI-Driven Cyber and Technology Risk Taskforce (ACT), an industry-wide ...

Cross-border payments: turning global complexity into competitive advantage

Cross-border payments sit at the centre of international trade, enabling businesses to pay suppliers, receive customer funds and move capital between markets. However, despite significant advances in ...

B2B fintech has barely been touched. Embedded finance is where the gap closes

Global fintech revenue crossed half a trillion dollars in 2025, according to Boston Consulting Group and FT Partners' Global Fintech Report 2026 (released in June), growing at 22%, more than four ...