Noda is expanding its open banking network to Brazil. The global open banking and payments provider, Noda, already operates in Europe, the UK and Canada.

Clearstream, DekaBank and DZ Bank have jointly issued two tokenised €5-million bonds using distributed-ledger technology (DLT). The issuances took place in the context of the ECB trials aimed at exploring the potential of DLT for settling wholesale transactions in central bank money.

BlackRock, Inc. has agreed to acquire Preqin, a leading independent provider of private markets data for £2.55 billion or approximately $3.2 billion in cash. Bringing together Preqin’s data and research tools with Aladdin’s complementary workflow capabilities in a unified platform will create a preeminent private markets technology and data provider.

Mesh, a US-based fintech company offering integrations with over 300 leading exchanges and wallets that recently completed a $22 million Series A round and received a $6.5 million strategic investment from PayPal Ventures, and Conio, the Italian fintech company backed by Poste Italiane and Banca Generali, which introduced Italy's first Bitcoin and digital assets wallet, announce today the launch Europe’s first Open Banking solution for Bitcoin.

Travel debit card Currensea has surpassed its crowdfunding target in just four hours after launching on the Seedrs platform. Currensea, a money-saving travel card linked to existing current accounts, has already raised over £1.7m from 760 investors.

Detected, a fintech reinventing how companies think about business onboarding, has released a new study highlighting the key challenges and future trends in the Know Your Business (KYB) sector. The findings reveal that the most common problem with KYB is the complexity of the process and AI and automation are set to transform business operations by 2027.

The last year has been challenging for UK households balancing budgets against rising fuel costs, spiralling inflation and wage pressures. Analysis by global analytics software firm FICO of its proprietary UK credit cards data for March 2023 to March 2024 illustrates the impact these pressures have had on credit card usage and debt management. 

Financial IT caught up with Paul Sweeney, Solution Architect, Engine by Starling and

Richard Kalas, Client Solutions Director, Retail Banking, GFT at Money20/20 Europe to discuss how they are modernising banking technology.