Retail leaders are spending a full working month each year dealing with the ongoing fight against fraud, new research finds.

The appointment marks the latest addition to the team led by Jenny Edwards, ahead of the launch of NatWest Venture Banking this April — a new initiative designed to transform how the bank supports the UK’s most ambitious and innovative venture-backed scale-ups. With this new offering, NatWest is spearheading efforts to be the partner of choice for founders and investors, with a regional coverage model that offers tailored support to help founders access capital, scale and navigate the challenges that come with rapid growth.

New findings released by Visa from its Checkout Friction Report in Ukraine reveal that simplifying online checkout while maintaining robust security is key to accelerating ecommerce adoption.

A growing market narrative suggests that AI will “eat” specialist SaaS. But for vertical SaaS platforms that have already embraced payments, such as Shopify and Lightspeed, the opposite is more likely to be true.

New research from Finity reveals a growing gap between perceived confidence and operational capability among payroll professionals ahead of HMRC’s introduction of Joint and Several Liability (JSL) in April 2026.

Offa, the UK’s leading Islamic property finance fintech firm, has today launched a high street bank-beating Home Purchase Plan (HPP), the Islamic equivalent of a conventional residential mortgage, with offers being made within an hour depending upon credit rating and risk criteria – thanks to a modern, paperless and ultra-fast application process.

TerraPay, a global money movement company, has announced a strategic partnership with Banco Ganadero S.A., one of Bolivia’s leading financial institutions, to enable 24/7 real-time payments  processing across the country. 

QUBE Events is excited to bring back the 24th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum - Switzerland, taking place on 5 March 2026 at the Marriott Hotel, Zurich, one of the world's leading financial centres. This prestigious forum offers valuable opportunities and powerful partnerships across all aspects of finance, from banking and payments to fintech, compliance, and regulatory technology.

Bluefin, the global leader in payment and data security infrastructure and PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE), today announced a strategic partnership with Basis Theory, a modern, API-driven tokenization and vaulting platform. Together, the companies enable enterprises to implement a unified token strategy across in-store, call center, online, and backend payment environments without expanding PCI scope or introducing new integration complexity.

Nvidia is close to finalising a roughly $30 billion investment in OpenAI, marking one of the most significant strategic moves yet in the rapidly escalating artificial intelligence arms race, according to a Reuters report citing sources familiar with the matter.  

The proposed investment would form part of OpenAI’s broader fundraising effort, which is expected to exceed $100 billion and could value the ChatGPT developer at as much as $830 billion, placing it among the world’s most valuable private companies.