Bitget, the leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company has released its 2024 transparency report highlighting one of the most successful years the company has experienced since its launch in 2018 emerging as the second-largest exchange ecosystem by user base. Driven by innovation, strategic business decisions and a strong demand for trustworthy platforms have pushed the ecosystem to expand beyond expectations.

Deutsche Bank (China) Co., Ltd. and Yonyou Network Technology Co., Ltd. signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) today in Beijing. The partnership aims to establish a new global financial services model with Global Treasury Management (GTM) at its core, driving innovation in digital financial services and supporting the globalization strategies of Chinese enterprises. The signing ceremony was attended by Leo Yin, President of Deutsche Bank China and Huang Chenhong, President of Yonyou.

Open banking is a UK success story with over 11.7 million active users and over 22.1 million open banking payments made monthly. 

There was significant progress in developing open banking in 2024, thanks to voluntary funding from 20 leading firms. This included:

N26 today announced free stocks and ETF trading for all customers from 27 January 2025 onwards, further enhancing its investment proposition as the only financial service provider in Europe to offer trading without charging fees or commissions.With this decision, N26 aims to make investing even more accessible, offering a way to trade Stocks and ETFs without applying transaction, currency conversion, custody or inactivity fees.

Norway-based Neonomics has acquired UK-based Open Banking platform Ordo to strengthen its commercialisation strategy and ability to offer services in the UK.

Fintech Innovation AS, the parent company of Neonomics, has acquired 100% ownership of The Smart Request Company Limited Ltd, which trades as Ordo.

TreviPay, the most-trusted B2B payments and invoicing network, today announced a partnership with 

Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, today announces a profitable end to 2024 and 45% year-on-year net revenue growth in its core business, which serves the commerce and fintech sectors and accounts for 95% of total volumes. These milestones underscore the company’s commitment to delivering the best possible value to global digital enterprises through better payment performance.

Muinmos has appointed four world-class industry leaders to its newly created Advisory Board to play a pivotal role in the RegTech firm’s ambitious growth plans.

The new Advisory Board members have decades of experience in RegTech, BigTech, Big Data Analytics and Digital Transformation. They have a strong track record in scaling businesses and driving profitable growth for firms within the financial services sector and beyond.

Revolut, a leading fintech with more than 50 million customers globally has announced the roll-out of In-App calls to personal customers, a new security measure to help customers uncover impersonation scams, and make contact between customer support and customers more reliable and safer.