Nubank announces today the Shared Boleto feature in its application. The new tool is being gradually made available to customers and allows the sharing of bank payment slips (boletos) with other people, facilitating the payment of group bills or the division of expenses.

PensionBee, a leading online retirement provider, announced today the addition of Roth and Traditional IRA contribution capabilities to its mobile app. All users are eligible to make tax-advantaged contributions directly through the platform, granting greater flexibility and control over their retirement planning.

B-Corporation status certifies a company's commitment to its social and environmental impact, not just profit-making - and for 2025, the B Corp Month campaign theme is ‘Gen B’, positioning B Corps as a new generation of business, redefining what good looks like.

Following a successful launch in the UK, Liberis, a leading global embedded finance platform, and Teya, a merchant-focused financial services provider are today announcing their expanded partnership to bring fast and flexible funding to merchants in Czech Republic and Slovakia. 

Qlarifi, a fintech start-up transforming credit reporting for Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL), has announced the successful completion of its pre-seed funding round. The round, backed by a combination of HoneyComb Asset Management, Carthona Capital and a selection of angel investors including Australian rugby legend John Eales, raised £1.4 million [$2.8m AUD/$1.8m USD] to accelerate the company’s mission of bringing repayment transparency to the BNPL industry.

In response to rapidly changing payment requirements, more and more banks are migrating from big monoliths to a microservices approach for payments processing. By leveraging reusable functions related to the critical parts of a payments flow, microservices are a way for banks to accelerate the development and deployment of new capabilities. But if monoliths are broken up, who is responsible for ensuring the right steps in a payments process?

The current banking disruption caused by outages is affecting millions of customers in the UK and around the world. How can banks and other financial institutions do better and help prevent this recurring issue?

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Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, today announced that its Intelligent Acceptance product, an AI-powered engine designed to help enterprise businesses boost their payment performance, has generated over $10 billion in additional merchant revenue.

NatWest Group has today announced that it has become the first UK-headquartered bank to work with OpenAI as part of a collaboration that supports its strategic focus on bank-wide simplification, which includes deploying AI to meet customers’ needs faster and more effectively and to increase productivity and efficiency across the bank.