UK fintech startup Novum scores UK pension fund backing

London-based fintech Novum Investment Management has secured an equity investment from a UK local government pension fund to ...

NatWest to shut 32 branches

NatWest is the latest high street bank to outline plans to trim its branch network, with 30 sites set to close this year and ...

UK fintech secures UK pension fund backing to scale investing tech

London-based fintech Novum Investment Management has secured an equity investment from a UK local government pension fund to ...

Stablecoin rails are only as good as their first and last mile

This creates a structural gap that many platforms discover only after committing to stablecoin rails. The blockchain settles ...

Intuis gives Affirm exclusive rights to provide BNPL for QuickBooks Payments

Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU), the global financial technology platform that makes Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, today announced a new, multi-year partnership with Affirm (NASDAQ: ...

Equifax releases machine learning product that detects first-party fraud

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) today announced the launch of Credit Abuse Risk, a new predictive model that uses FCRA-regulated data and is designed to help protect lenders against first-party fraud and drive ...

Cash Isn’t Dead — It’s Just Smarter: How Scheme Sponsorship Keeps the UK’s ATM Network Alive

Cash has been pronounced dead so many times that there shouldn’t be a single ATM left on the UK’s highstreets, and yet in ...

Are the Senior MPs Right to Worry About the UK’s AI Approach?

A recent report by the House of Commons Parliamentary Treasury Committee of MPs criticised the government, the Bank of ...

FSCS SCV Exclusions: The Detail That Reveals Readiness

In FSCS Single Customer View (SCV) work, it’s tempting to focus on scale, how quickly data can be pulled together, how clean ...

Oxygen Conservation expands into Europe, appoints Elena Doms to lead growth

Oxygen Conservation today announces its expansion into Europe, the launch of a European capital raise, and the appointment of Elena Doms as Director of Europe — a decisive step in the evolution of its ...

Rebecca Griffin joins Afin Bank as chief risk officer

Rebecca Griffin has been appointed Chief Risk Officer at specialist lender Afin Bank. This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of ...

Building Operational Resilience in a Digital-First Financial Sector

As a result, operational resilience has become a board-level priority. Regulators across the UK, EU, US, and Asia now expect financial institutions to demonstrate that they can prevent, absorb, ...