Wealth & Asset Management

London fintech 1fs Wealth and Apex Group announce strategic partnership

SBI Digital Markets, UBS Asset Management, and Chainlink Complete Pilot For Automated Fund Administration and Transfer Agency Using Smart Contracts

Westwood Wealth Management Partners with OneVest to Elevate Client and Advisor Experience

Fourcore Becomes Sponsor of Global Blockchain Acquisition Corp. and Appoints Wealth Management CEO

“I Want to Break Free” (from Operational Complexity): Building Scalable Wealth Management Operations for Growth

Swissquote Singapore: Pioneering Digital Wealth Management in Asia

Executive Moves

BX Digital finds a CEO and moves forward with DLT trading system

UBX Appoints Banking Veteran as Chairman

WTW names Hart as Cyber Leader for PE&TS, CRB NA

Nicole Nakashian joins Community Fincentric as COO

Tandem appoints CFO

Trust Payments appoints Laurence William Booth as CEO

Legal,Regulation,Tax & Compliance

Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach

Lifting of BaFin restrictions boosts growth at N26

Fintech at heart of UK's financial services growth strategy - Chancellor

Klarna eyes Wall Street: Drafts IPO filing with the SEC

FinCEN warns banks about deepfake threat

NatWest blocks WhatsApp

Retail Banking

Google Pay integrates with Afterpay and Klarna

BMO Recognized for Digital Innovation, Customer Experience and Delivery Excellence with Five Global Retail Banking Innovation Awards

Sweden's Riksbank presents case for modernisation of retail payments infrastructure

Xoom Enables Partners to Use PayPal USD for Faster Cross-Border Payments

Criminal ATM tactics making a comeback in South Africa

J.P. Morgan to enhance Payhawk’s payment service of enterprise customers

Bitcoin, Blockchain & AI

Temenos powers on-premises generative AI for real-time banking with NVIDIA accelerated computing

AI and Gen AI are set to transform cybersecurity for most organizations

Bitcoin bursts past $94,000 for the first time

Jersey Finance Launches New Series of Insights About Artificial Intelligence

Key takeaways from the Private Funds CFO Network’s Europe Forum

‘I put most of my wealth into Bitcoin, so I am fully committed’ — RFK Jr.

Mobile Banking

Hejaz launches Australia’s first halal investment app

Myanmar’s Wave Money taps Amdocs for Digital Financial Services platform

FIS: Lack of Branches, In-Person Service Keep Singaporeans Loyal to Traditional Banks

European mobile payment operators enable interoperability

PayPal rolls out money pooling tool for group purchases

Bank of Namibia taps Konsentus to support open banking implementation

Comment & Analysis

Is the Digital Banking boom neglecting older generations?

The sun shines on the brave

Beyond banking’s four walls: the journey to open finance

The shifting sands of influence in fintech

Nearly 80 Million U.S. Consumers Lost Money to Scams in Last Five Years, With AI Key to Tackling Fraud and Financial Crime

Finastra Simplifies SME Lending with New Loan Servicing Solution

Cyber Security

Fraud fears impacting small businesses

Mastercard aims to kill passwords and manual card entry by 2030

Fintech players urged to build up cybersecurity capability

Mastercard and ASEAN Foundation Team Up on Cybersecurity

Guernsey’s Data Protection Authority publishes latest breach statistics

Banks and mobile operators collaborate on Scam Signal for detecting APP fraud

Research

Majority of banks and insurers struggle to maximize the value from their cloud investments

Family guys focus on the Fed, tech and succession plans

Visa reveals SME megatrends in the UAE

Digital infrastructure top challenge to real world asset tokenisation

May crypto investments hit $1B driven by Notcoin launch — KuCoin

How AI Can Help Asset Managers Do Their Jobs

Innovation & Startups

The 10 fintech companies to watch right now

EastWest Bank partners MoEngage for digital innovation

Transforming banking through innovation

Technology is becoming the ‘central nervous system’ of financial advice

Singaporeans Increasingly Rely on Social Media for Financial Advice

Northern Trust taps CloudMargin for new collateral management system

Trading Platforms

TD Bank Joins LTX, A Broadridge Company, As a Liquidity Provider

ETFs Utilize Integrated Management Approach, Provide Allocations to All Core Equity Asset Classes

Broadridge Launches Tradeverse, Transforms the Way Global Financial Firms Manage Their Trading Data

Newgen launches trade finance platform in the Middle East

Payoneer acquires payroll start-up Skuad in Singapore for $61m

Trading app gamification can increase risk taking - FCA

Alternative Investments

Partners Group Introduces New Infrastructure Evergreen Fund in Canada

SEI Expands SMA and UMA Solutions with Suite of Equity and Fixed Income Strategies

Brown Advisory Selects SEI to Launch First ETF

FinTech Octane completes $326m asset-backed securitisation

SEI Launches Liquid Alternative Fund in Canada

NovoPayment secures $20m from Morgan Stanley to boost FinTech innovations

Planet SOS

BlackRock, MAS Unveil Blended Finance Initiative for SE Asia Decarbonisation

Is Sustainability the New Priority in Digital Banking?

ESG Data & Solutions introduces ESGSure to transform ESG research

Carbon Capture Gets Boost from Major Bank of America Investment

UK climate fintech Zero secures partners ahead of launch

“We want to be the App Store for Recycling”: meet EasyWaste the tech entrepreneur working to eradicate waste