October 21, 2025 @ 9:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nearly half of financial services professionals (49%) are reporting a significant increase in Gen Z workers leaving their organisation during the last 12 months, according to KPMG’s UK Financial Services Sentiment Survey. Retention challenges are said to have been felt most “prominently” in the banking… Read More

 Tagged financial services, research, uk, united kingdom, workforce

October 21, 2025 @ 1:22 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Payroc, a provider of payment processing solutions, now enables its U.S. merchants to accept in-person contactless payments with Tap to Pay on iPhone. With the Payroc Mobile iOS app, merchants can now accept contactless credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and other digital wallets using… Read More

 Tagged Casey Conley, contactless payments, iphone, payroc, tap to pay

October 21, 2025 @ 12:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut and its backers are said to nearing the completion of a $3 billion fundraising round that reportedly values the UK-based fintech company at $75 billion. Revolut has now started informing investors about the allocation of shares they will be receiving as part… Read More

 Tagged digital bank, fintech, funding round, revolut

October 20, 2025 @ 5:21 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

U.S. Bank (NYSE: USB) has created a new Digital Assets and Money Movement organization to accelerate development of and grow revenue from emerging digital products and services such as stablecoin issuance, cryptocurrency custody, asset tokenization and digital money movement. Jamie Walker, a veteran in the… Read More

 Tagged Digital Assets and Money Movement, Dominic Venturo, elavon, Jamie Walker, u.s. bank

October 20, 2025 @ 3:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

SecureLend this week announced the commercial launch of its AI-powered lending platform, designed to make loan origination up to 10 times faster and 60% more cost-efficient for community banks, factoring companies, and alternative lenders. The Delaware-based fintech said it is the first to introduce a large language model (LLM)-agnostic architecture, enabling institutions… Read More

 Tagged ai, community banks, lending, LLM, SecureLend, Tobias Pfuetze

October 20, 2025 @ 2:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nu Asset Management, Nubank’s (NYSE: NU) investment manager, is introducing the Nu CDI Tesouro Selic B3 (NCDI11), a new fixed income ETF. The solution enables investors to access Letras Financeiras do Tesouro (LFT) – Selic-linked government bonds – tracking the performance of these securities over… Read More

 Tagged asset management, brazil, etfs, mexico, nubank

October 20, 2025 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

AWS, the incredibly successful infrastructure venture by Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) experienced an outage earlier today that impacted thousands of website. AWS confirmed the outage explaining there was an issue with a Domain Name System (DNS) failure that mainly impacted the US East – 1 region. While… Read More

 Tagged amazon, aws, concryt, outage

October 20, 2025 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Euronet (NASDAQ: EEFT), a firm focused on payments processing and cross-border transactions, announced it has chosen to leverage Fireblocks, an enterprise platform for digital asset infrastructure (non-custodial), settlement, trading operations and stablecoin payments. Fireblocks enables Euronet to integrate stablecoin tech into its payments infrastructure, “accelerating… Read More

 Tagged cross-border payments, euronet, Fireblocks, stablecoins

October 20, 2025 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank payment Fintech GoCardless has elevated two company execs to its newly formed EMEA leadership team as it seeks to further expand its business operations in the fast-evolving market. Borja Valiente has been named VP of Sales and GM, EMEA and Hamish Wood as the… Read More

 Tagged bank payments, emea, fintech, gocardless

October 20, 2025 @ 6:25 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

AAF Management has closed a $55M early-stage hybrid fund. The Axis Fund invests in emerging managers (Funds I and II) and their most promising underlying portfolio companies at the pre-seed to pre-IPO stages. The Axis Fund is AAF’s fourth vintage and raises the firm’s assets-under-management… Read More

 Tagged AAF Management, FIntechs, flutterwave, Kyle Hendrick, moneylion, Omar Darwazah