Church International https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Bank of England uncovers significant trade‑offs in use of DLT for wholesale settlement Home US banks hurry to patch vulnerabilities uncovered by Mythos Bunq applies for Mexican banking license Deutsche Bank joins $120m funding round for crypto analytics firm Elliptic London fintech Adfin raises $18 million BofE to soften plans for stablecoin restrictions UK Payments Association names CEO US fintech Parker files for bankruptcy UK fintech funding falls by 43% in Q1 Revolut primed for wealth management push after FCA approval BBVA and Goldman Sachs back new OpenAI company Dark web traders selling stolen UK payment cards for just £9 BaFin preps IT spotlight inspections amidst growing AI cybersecurity risks Google adds Affirm and Klarna BNPL options for AI shopping Palm payments startup Five ID raises $6 million Visa and Zilch bring flexible card payments to UK SoFi buys PrimaryBid assets NatWest selects eight AI-driven fintechs for 2026 innovation programme Lunar co-founder and CEO Ken Villum Klausen steps down Embat secures €30 million Series B SQL Server DBA Visa unveils Tap to Confirm ID tech Bullish to buy Equiniti for $4.2bn in tokenisation push NYC Mayor Mamdani calls on regulator to block Western Union takeover of rival Paymentology raises $175m Alipay lets shoppers delegate purchases to AI Visa unveils Tap to Confirm tech Credit Karma opens up membership to America’s ‘credit invisible’ Augustus gets OCC conditional approval to build clearing bank for AI era AWS targets AI agent payments MAS to train AI on live bank account data to combat financial crime US Bank taps AWS for cloud migration and AI deployment UK BaaS platform Keel emerges from stealth Commerzbank to axe 3000 jobs as it fends off UniCredit takeover Coinbase hit by 7-hour outage Sui announces RedotPay-powered Slush card for digital assets Kraken owner to pay $600m for stablecoin infrastructure firm Reap Kalshi valuation soars to $22bn Temenos Community Forum 2026: AI will power the bank of tomorrow Top Wall Street dealers join bond trading platform LTX ECB president Lagarde questions case for euro stablecoins Romance fraud costs UK victims £102 million in a year as reports surge by nearly a third Visa brings Agentic Ready programme to Canada and Malaysia Inside Starling: A conversation with group CRO Keith Algie Ondo completes first cross-border, cross-bank redemption of tokenised US treasuries Solana Foundation partners Google Cloud on stablecoin payments for AI agents City of London calls UK tech firms to set up digital verification network Bullish to buy Equinti for $4.2bn in tokenisation push TwoWay raises €1.5m pre-seed, brings real-time intelligence to fragmented trading desks