BBVA Launches a Credit Card in Germany and Expands Its Financial Products Offering
- 7 hours 45 min ago
- Banking
BBVA Germany is launching its first credit card for customers in Germany in partnership with Mastercard. This new card is free for active users and offers an initial six-month fee-free trial period for new cardholders to experience its benefits without a fee, while delivering state-of-the-art security features and no foreign exchange fees (FX) worldwide. The launch highlights what sets BBVA apart from other digital banks: leveraging the scale... more
HSBC and Google Cloud Announce Transformative AI Banking Partnership
- 8 hours 6 min ago
- Banking
HSBC and Google Cloud today announced a multi-year partnership to build and deploy AI capabilities across HSBC’s operations globally, accelerating innovation in areas such as hyper-personalised advice and financial crime risk management.
Chetwood Bank Launches Wholesale Banking Division and Appoints Leadership Team
- 10 hours 24 min ago
- Banking
Chetwood Bank has announced the launch of its Wholesale Banking division with the appointment of Alex Grove as Managing Director of Wholesale Banking, Toby Sharp FRICS as Director of Commercial Real Estate and Nirvan Sunderam as Managing Director of Wholesale Risk.
Glia Launches AI Outreach as a Growth Engine for Banks and Credit Unions
- 1 day 12 hours ago
- Banking
Glia, the #1 Banking AI platform, today announced Glia AI Outreach, a new AI-powered outbound engagement solution to help community and regional financial institutions reach customers more proactively and personally while helping customer care teams do more without adding staff.
Latinia Identifies a Growing Governance Gap in Critical Banking Communications
- 2 days 7 hours ago
- Banking
Latinia, a provider of real-time decisioning and communication technologies for financial institutions, today released a new industry perspective examining what it describes as a growing governance gap in banking: the management of critical customer communications associated with financial events. “Financial institutions are extremely focused on having mature governance frameworks for risk management and cybersecurity,” said Marc Alcón, CEO at... more
Feedzai Opens $9 Trillion Fraud Intelligence Network to Every Bank, Delivering 4x Improvement in Fraud Detection From Day One
- 1 week 7 hours ago
- Banking
Feedzai, the global leader in AI-native financial crime prevention, today announced the availability of Feedzai IQ Score, an AI-native, network-derived fraud risk scoring solution for banks of all sizes.
LHV Bank Launches ‘Not for Everyone’ First UK Retail Brand Campaign
- 1 week 10 hours ago
- Banking
LHV Bank, the award-winning, app-only savings and current account provider, has launched its first brand campaign targeting retail customers in a direct challenge to the over-familiar, gimmick-heavy culture that has come to define UK banking in recent years.
Volante Technologies Launches “Vol360i” Agentic AI at the Core of Payments, Setting a New Global Standard for Intelligence in Banking
- 1 week 1 day ago
- Banking
Volante Technologies, the global leader in Payments as a Service (PaaS), today announced that its Payments Platform and PaaS operations are now powered by its “Vol360i” Agentic AI. The core upgrade unlocks autonomous and semi-autonomous collaboration to reduce manual intervention, significantly increasing straight-through processing (STP) rates to over 95%, accelerating exception resolution, and proactively managing SLA performance.
Backbase Collaborates With Mastercard to Simplify Cross-Border Payments for Banks
- 1 week 2 days ago
- Banking
Backbase announced a strategic collaboration with Mastercard to integrate Mastercard Move - Mastercard's portfolio of global money movement capabilities - into the Backbase AI-native Banking OS. The collaboration is designed to accelerate near real-time cross-border payment adoption among financial institutions worldwide, enabling them to deploy international payment solutions while reducing implementation complexity and time-to-market.
Banking Apps: Reimagined for Commerce
- 1 week 6 days ago
- Banking
Asia Pacific is the world's largest digital payments market, with transaction values reaching nearly $16 trillion in 2025, and mobile banking apps are at the center of that shift — handling not just balance checks and transfers but increasingly sitting at the point of purchase. For banks across the region, that means their apps have become something more than a service channel. They hold large, active consumer bases who are transacting... more
ClearBank Europe Signs Agreement With ByBit EU to Provide Banking Infrastructure and Safeguarding Across Europe
- 2 weeks 11 hours ago
- Banking
ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, today announces a new strategic partnership with Bybit EU, the Vienna-headquartered crypto-asset service provider operating under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR, to deliver core banking infrastructure in support of its European growth.
Lorum Extends Correspondent Rails Into Yield, Taking on the BNY Model for Mid-Market Financial Institutions
- 2 weeks 11 hours ago
- Banking
Lorum today announced the upcoming launch of a yield-bearing capability within its cash management offering for institutional treasurers. The capability extends Lorum's existing cash management service, giving treasurers access to money market instruments alongside the multi-currency clearing, custody, and FX they already use, through a single account structure.
Paymentology Launches Lume to Accelerate Growth for Fintechs and Banks
- 2 weeks 13 hours ago
- Banking
Paymentology, the global issuer processor, today announced the launch of Lume, its cloud-native issuer processing platform built for banks and fintechs to support their launch, and scale of card programmes globally on technology engineered for sustained growth and momentum.
Fiserv and Cognition Partner to Modernize Banking Technology and Bring New Capabilities to Clients Faster
- 2 weeks 5 days ago
- Banking
Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of payments and financial technology, and Cognition, the AI agent lab, today announced a strategic partnership to deploy Cognition’s AI software engineer, Devin, to accelerate the modernization of core banking technology and shorten the time it takes for new capabilities to reach Fiserv financial institution clients. By shortening release cycles and strengthening platform performance, the partnership... more
Brits Hardest Hit in Europe by Bank Branch Closures, as Government Launches Review
- 3 weeks 11 hours ago
- Banking
One in five (20%) UK consumers say bank branch closures are making it harder to access the financial services they need. New Europe-wide research from CRIF, a global leader in credit information, analytics and solutions, finds that UK consumers are among the most affected by declining in-person banking access in Europe.
