25 Jan 13 @ 00:00

FICO announced that Santander has received a 2012 Banking Technology Award for Best Security Initiative for its SIM swapping solution, developed with Adeptra and rolled out in Santander’s UK operations. FICO... read more

23 Sep 26 @ 14:34

The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launching Pontes to allow wholesale tokenised asset transactions to settle in... read more

02 Sep 26 @ 20:54

Twenty-one of the world’s largest financial institutions are preparing to establish a new stablecoin company, marking one of the banking industry’s most significant attempts yet to compete for a role... read more

30 Jun 26 @ 07:05

Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide Building Society, NatWest Group and Santander UK are working with UK Finance in the development of a voluntary digital verification service that could transform... read more

18 Jun 26 @ 19:36

Three of Spain’s largest banking groups have taken a significant step towards strengthening the fight against financial crime, launching a shared fraud intelligence platform designed to identify and prevent fraudulent... read more

13 Oct 25 @ 12:55

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that the bank led stablecoin race was hotting up as nine of Europe’s largest banks unveiled plans to issue a euro-denominated stablecoin, the... read more

15 Oct 20 @ 09:00

New research suggests that the UK’s largest retail banking brands’ ascendency in the savings account market could be under threat. According to the report by Deposit Solutions, a fifth (20%)... read more

23 May 19 @ 10:57

Recent reports have announced that several large global banks are in the process of investing around $50 million to create Fnality, a digital cash system using blockchain technology to settle... read more

21 May 19 @ 08:25

SWIFT says that a group of banks are to trial instant gpi cross-border payments in Europe using the TARGET Instant Payments Settlement (TIPS) platform. The European Central Bank (ECB) and... read more

08 Apr 19 @ 12:35

A group of 12 regional and digital financial institutions have joined together as investors and members in KY3P, for managing third-party risk and optimising the processes by which financial institutions... read more

05 Apr 18 @ 10:48

Blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) have been key disruptors discussed for several years now. But compared with previous years, when many of the discussions were conceptual, at finally there... read more

27 Sep 26 @ 18:52

Seven major UK financial institutions have completed the first live customer transactions using tokenised sterling deposits, marking an important step in Britain’s attempt to move programmable money from experimentation into... read more

04 Jun 26 @ 21:01

OpenAI has widened access to its latest cybersecurity-focused artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.5 Cyber, granting several of the UK’s largest banks the ability to deploy the technology as part of their... read more

22 Apr 26 @ 19:36

Banks are hardening their cyber defences as artificial intelligence begins to alter the economics of digital attacks. For financial institutions, the challenge is no longer simply that cybercrime is growing... read more

17 Mar 26 @ 15:03

Visa is moving to bring agentic commerce closer to commercial reality, launching a new programme with banks across the UK and Europe to test how artificial intelligence agents could initiate... read more

18 Feb 26 @ 12:37

Senior executives from Britain’s largest lenders will convene this week to advance plans for a domestic card network alternative to the global card schemes that dominate UK commerce. The meeting,... read more

18 Feb 26 @ 08:55

The UK’s credit card market is enjoying an unexpected revival. After years in which regulators, fintech challengers and pandemic-era savings appeared to dampen demand, plastic has reasserted itself as a... read more

14 Nov 25 @ 10:34

BLIK, Poland’s leading mobile payments system, has launched a pilot programme enabling euro-denominated phone-to-phone (P2P) transfers with other European mobile payment providers — a significant step toward a unified European... read more

30 Sep 25 @ 12:47

Global payments co-operative Swift is moving into blockchain as it faces rising competition from the $300bn stablecoin industry. The Belgium-based group, whose network links more than 11,500 banks and financial... read more

25 Sep 25 @ 16:03

Swift, the global financial messaging network, has announced a new framework designed to bring greater speed, transparency and certainty to cross-border retail payments. Working with more than 30 leading banks,... read more