BMLL, one of the world’s leading independent providers of historical data and analytics, has been selected to support EuroCTP as part of the EU’s Consolidated Tape initiative.

One of the keys behind the future success of the consolidated tape for equities is the quality of the data itself. Thanks to this collaboration, EuroCTP will be in a position to validate its data quality control designs, and calibrate the thresholds and parameters for those controls ahead of go live, should EuroCTP be selected. 

 A new report released today at Web Summit, Lisbon, by one of the UK’s fastest growing fintech lenders, Juice, uncovers the hidden behavioural forces driving the UK’s £65 billion SME funding gap, and how lenders, FinTech's, and policymakers must act to close it.

Ravelin is warning e-commerce merchants to urgently review their payment strategy ahead of Black Friday, as new research reveals a global drop in frictionless authentication rates, threatening sales conversions during one of the busiest shopping periods of the year.

Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation, and financial technology provider, has released its proprietary Falcon TST (Time-Series Transformer) AI model, the industry-first Mixture of Experts architecture-based big data model with multiple patch tokenizers, supported by up to 2.5 billion parameters. The model has also achieved state-of-the-art zero-shot results on well-acknowledged long-term forecasting benchmarks, such as absolute mean error rates.

Starling has teamed up with Small Business Britain, the UK’s leading champion of small businesses, to found a campaign to empower women across the UK to start and grow their businesses. 

PPRO, the leading local payments platform, today announced the launch of Buy Now Pay Local, a new solution that enables Payment Service Providers (PSPs) and merchants to access the local Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) options that consumers prefer, through a single, seamless integration.

Cashflows, the platform that makes it easy for businesses to accept payments, has partnered with Boodil, a UK-based e-commerce payments technology provider, to enhance the payment experience for Shopify merchants across the UK.

The strategic partnership combines Cashflows’ robust acquiring and gateway technology with Boodil’s innovative payment technology, arming Shopify merchants with a comprehensive payment suite that offers card payments and digital wallets.

FALKIN, a digital safety company that helps people stop scams before payments happen, has today announced it has secured $2 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by TriplePoint Ventures, with participation from Notion Capital, BackFuture Ventures, Aviva/Founders Factory, Haatch, Found Capital, and Founders Capital. The round also included leading fintech and cyber investors such as Pierre Decote, Group Chief Risk Officer at Revolut and Ben Enckevort, CTO and Co-Founder of Metomic.

As part of its European growth strategy, UK-based payments company myPOS is introducing Tap to Pay on iPhone for businesses in Spain. The move comes after the fintech successfully launched the feature in nine other European markets, including the UK, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Available within the myPOS Glass app, the feature allows merchants to accept all forms of contactless payments directly on their iPhone — including contactless credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and other digital wallets — with no additional hardware required. 

Fraud prevention sits at the heart of customer trust in modern banking. Across the Asia-Pacific region, digital payments continue to surge, and with that growth comes a rising tide of scams and unauthorised transactions. In fact, Mastercard estimates that individual consumers in Asia collectively lost nearly $700 billion USD to digital scams in 2024.