Consumers and businesses could be given greater control over their financial data to help secure better deals, under a vision for open finance published today by the FCA.

CLOWD9 and Sphere share a mission to enable their customers to measure, understand, and offset their carbon footprint in real-time, by embedding climate action tools into everyday payments

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc, welcomes the grant of a stablecoin issuer licence by the HKMA

PayPal is bringing Pix, the instant payment method used by more than 170 million Brazilians, to SMBs

Relm Insurance announced the launch of its Kidnap and Ransom (K&R) insurance product to protect individuals and organizations

Sedgwick has launched their new Accident Response Team nationally, a 24/7 rapid accident response service is available for commercial trucking accidents

The product will continue to be developed, operated and offered under the new name Insure Stack

Scotiabank announced the launch of Scotia Intelligence, a unified enterprise approach designed to accelerate the Bank's AI evolution

Ozone API announced a strategic partnership with iFAST Global Bank to maintain seamless PSD2 compliance and future-proofs its multi-currency current account

Yield Basis (YB), a liquidity protocol built on Curve Finance infrastructure, has introduced Hybrid Vault — a new deposit mechanism designed to expand capacity beyond existing limits by linking protocol growth directly to demand for crvUSD.

Bank of Baroda and Reliance Jio today announced a partnership to launch bob World Lite, the first comprehensive mobile banking app designed specifically for feature phone users, on the JioPhone Prima 4G device. In line with the vision of the Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India to promote inclusivity and make digital payments accessible to feature phone users, this industry-first initiative brings seamless and comprehensive digital banking access to millions across the country. The app will be available to both existing Bank of Baroda customers as well as customers of any other bank through a simple and convenient self-onboarding process.

Q4 Inc. (Q4), the leading provider of AI-driven IR Ops software, today announced the acquisition of Virtua Research (Virtua), a provider of collaborative consensus analytics and financial modeling solutions.

Point, the Investment Data Intelligence (IDI) platform providing data infrastructure for wealth and asset managers, today announced a partnership with Pretim, a specialist in wealth data automation and aggregation.

SRM, a trusted advisory firm serving financial institutions globally, announced the appointment of Ian Povey to its International Advisory Board. Povey joins the twelve-member board, which includes representation from five different countries and provides strategic guidance across the organization.

Kin, the direct-to-consumer digital home and auto insurance, and home finance provider, today announced the appointment of Brett Tighe to its Board of Directors. Tighe currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Okta, the world’s identity company securing AI, machine, and human identity so everyone is free to use any technology.