Standard Chartered will give its institutional clients direct access to minting and redeeming stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) through a partnership with payments technology firm Circle.

Visa has completed live AI agent-powered payment transactions across Europe, with more than 30 banks enabling autonomous purchases at participating merchant websites in what the payments company descr ...

Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, and NatWest have become the first in the country to adopt a new Swift payment framework that enables ...

A Swedish court has ordered Google to pay nearly $2 billion in damages to PriceRunner, a price comparison site owned by ...

Lloyds Banking Group has announced that it will phase out the 173-year-old Halifax brand with immediate effect ...

OCBC has launched an AI-powered mobile banking app featuring virtual avatars designed to provide customers with personalised, ...

Agentic commerce is set to grow over the next five years from around 300 million users in 2026 to 1.3 billion users by 2031, ...

The Bank of England has warned that existing regulatory frameworks may not be able to oversee increasingly autonomous ...

The UK’s financial regulator has unveiled the final framework for its new jurisdiction over cryptoassets after easing capital and disclosure requirements for the industry.

Communities across York and North Yorkshire can apply for funding to improve access to banking services as part of a new ...

Billionaire investor Leon Black was subpoenaed by a US congressional committee on Friday after he walked out of a closed-door ...

ING Spain is closing in on purchasing a 40 per cent stake in the Singular Bank, a move that would bring it into the private ...