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Monetary Authority of Singapore and banks team on safeguards for AI agents
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), together with leading financial institutions and FinTechs, today published an industry white paper on developing safeguards for AI agents in Finance.
Jul 5, 2026
Starling to axe 130 jobs as part of automation drive
UK challenger bank Starling has announced plans to cut more than 100 jobs as part of an efficiency drive.
Jul 5, 2026
ToneTag launches voice-first bank assistant for Indian market
ToneTag, India’s deep-tech platform, today announced the launch of eKosha, a voice-first business assistant for merchants that enables banks to deliver a full range of merchant banking services directly at the merchant counter without requiring new infrastructure investment.
Jul 5, 2026
IMF issues tokenisation warning
Monetary policy frameworks must adapt to the ongoing development of tokenisation and the likelihood that risk will migrate from banks' balance sheets to service providers and market infrastructures.
Jul 5, 2026
Klarna taps Money Wellness to offer free financial wellbeing checks to UK users
Klarna has joined forces with financial wellbeing platform Money Wellness to provide their UK customers with a financial health check.
Jul 5, 2026
Lloyds to retire Halifax brand
The Halifax brand is set to disappear from UK high streets after 179 years as a financial institution.
Jul 5, 2026
Visa launches Visa Destinations offering discounts for travellers
Visa’s travel offer platform Visa Destinations is now live for users across 10 locations.
Jul 5, 2026
Hargreaves Lansdown appoints technology heads
Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), the UK-based wealth management platform, has strengthened its technology leadership with two senior appointments
Jul 5, 2026
Signicat and TrustTech partner to bring reusable identity to European digital wallets
Signicat, the European digital identity leader and trust services provider, and TrustTech, the digital trust infrastructure company specialising in identity verification, reusable compliance checks and trusted signatures, today announced a partnership to help regulated businesses build reusable identity processes through private wallet ecosystems.
Jul 5, 2026
BetGoodwin and Trust Payments sign partnership
BetGoodwin, online sportsbook and casino, has agreed a new 8-year partnership with Trust Payments, the leading payment service provider.
Jul 5, 2026
MDOTM raises $27m for AI investment platform
MDOTM Ltd., the global provider of AI-driven investment solutions for Asset and Wealth Management companies, today announced the close of a $27 million growth equity round led by Expedition Growth Capital.
Jul 5, 2026
WBS and Quai Digital extend fractional dealing partnership
WBS, a leading provider of dealing, custody, and technology solutions to the UK investment industry, today announces a five-year extension of its partnership with Quai Digital.
Jul 5, 2026
Visa launches threat intelligence platform; carries out agentic transactions in Europe
Visa has launched a platform designed to help financial institutions detect and respond to cyber threats. Separately, the payments giant has carried out a host of agentic commerce transactions with banks across Europe.
Published Jul 3, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 5, 2026
Standard Chartered gives institutional clients access to USDC minting and redemption
Standard Chartered has teamed up with Circle to enable its institutional clients to access USDC stablecoin minting and redemption.
Published Jul 3, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 5, 2026
Square adds ChatGPT and Claude integrations
Square today announced a new ChatGPT app and Claude plugin, helping sellers get discovered and transact at the exact moment customers are making purchasing decisions through AI-powered conversations.
Published Jul 2, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 5, 2026
Intesa Sanpaolo migrates core IT systems to Google Cloud infrastructure
Italy's biggest bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, has completed the migration of its core IT systems to Google Cloud infrastructure.
Published Jul 2, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 5, 2026
Infinite and Sardine launch two-way integration
Infinite, the AI-native compliance and payments platform built for the stablecoin economy, and Sardine, the fraud, risk, and payments platform, today announced a two-way integration that combines Sardine's real-time fraud and risk intelligence with Infinite's AI-powered compliance platform and account infrastructure.
Published Jul 2, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 5, 2026
Major UK banks adopt Swift consumer payments framework
Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and NatWest will be among the first financial institutions in the world to go live with Swift's new framework for cross-border retail payments.
Published Jul 2, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 5, 2026
One in four Brits have fallen for online financial scams
A quarter of British adults have lost money after falling for fraudulent online advertisements and have cut back on online shopping as a result.
Published Jul 2, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 5, 2026
JP Morgan's AI head to depart after 4 decades
Teresa Heitsenrether, chief data and analytics officer at JP Morgan Chase, is set to leave the bank after a career spanning four decades
Published Jul 2, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 5, 2026