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.  

BlueSnap, a leading global payment orchestration platform, has been named "Best B2B Payments Product" at the 9th annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards. This recognition highlights BlueSnap’s innovative approach to helping B2B businesses streamline digital payments, reduce costs, and expand globally through a single, unified platform.

Temenos today announced it has been named Technology Provider of the Year at the FStech Awards 2025, recognizing its leadership in modernizing financial institutions with banking solutions powered by GenAI, cloud, and SaaS.

iDenfy, a Lithuania-based RegTech service provider specializing in ID verification and fraud prevention, announced a new partnership with Evemo, an innovative mobility platform focusing on shared solutions for cars, bikes, or scooters. Through this collaboration, Evemo will use iDenfy’s automated identity verification solutions to enhance security and streamline customer onboarding, boosting conversion rates and providing a simpler registration process for Evemo. 

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced it is joining the ERC3643 Association. As a member, DTCC will contribute to the Association’s goals by promoting and advancing the ERC3643 token standard.

WealthKernel, a digital investing infrastructure provider, today announces a new partnership with Round Treasury, a banking and treasury platform that aims to simplify and help businesses manage their treasury and cash.

Lloyds Banking Group, one of the UK’s largest financial services organisations, has expanded its collaboration with Oracle to further strengthen its customer experience.