Social media giants are being urged to join the fight against the soaring number of scam ads in the UK and to pay their fair share in combatting online fraud.  The call comes ahead of the Government’s National Fraud Strategy, set to be published imminently.

The Payments Association (TPA), wants a Home Office-led overhaul of how online fraud is fought in the UK and set out the sector’s view on the way forward and how to take action at its PAY360 event in London this month.

WealthKernel, a digital investing infrastructure provider, today announces its partnership with Seapoint, a business account that automates payroll, expenses, invoice payment, reporting and more for startups and scale-ups. The partnership enables Seapoint to offer access to Money Market Funds (MMFs) and custody services to its customers. 

Dynamic Planner, the UK’s leading digital advice platform, has analysed the data from 9000 Financial Wellbeing and Attitude to Risk Questionnaires*, to reveal insightful and actionable findings ahead of International Women’s Day.

Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has rolled out an upgraded Market Maker Incentive Program that introduces a group-based maker rate structure across all spot and futures trading pairs. The update is designed to deepen order-book liquidity, improve execution quality, and provide a more tailored incentive framework for professional market makers operating on the platform. The updated structure will take effect on March 4, 2026, between 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM (UTC+8).

One in five Brits (22%) have asked their bank for a refund within the past 12 months for legitimate items and services purchased, new research has found.

While more than half (58%) of customers said they returned the money after realising their mistake, 36% ended up keeping the refund.

Younger consumers were found to be far more likely to have filed false chargeback claims, with two in five people (40%) aged 16–24 admitting to doing so within the past year.

KAST, the global platform built on stablecoin rails, announced today that Brad Jaffe, who led global communications at cryptocurrency exchange Binance for more than three years during a period of rapid global growth and regulatory evolution, has joined the company as Chief Communications Officer.

iDenfy, a global RegTech company that specializes in identity verification and fraud prevention services, announced the AI Company Reviewer, its smart Know Your Business (KYB) automation tool that acts as a virtual Data Verification Officer by cross-referencing company documents, government registry reports, and fraud signals against custom, easily configurable rules, helpingto approve, deny, or flag companies more easily.