January 2025 – Page 36

FS Giants Gear Up for Cyber Defense Drill

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) has gathered nearly 30 financial firms for a NATO live-fire cyber defense exercise. The Locked Shields...

SC Ventures and Yabx Invest $10 Million in Purpose-Driven Lending Platform Furaha

Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment, and ventures arm, along with Yabx Technologies, a Tech Mahindra group company, have established a series of agreements to formalize...

Swiss Fintech Radicant Dismisses CEO

Radicant Bank, a digital bank based in Switzerland, has dismissed its CEO and co-founder following the leak of an internal email that criticized critics and...

Tony Blair and William Hague Advocate for Digital Identity Cards

Former British political party leaders Sir Tony Blair and Lord William Hague have championed digital identity cards as integral to the "technological revolution." During an...

CFPB Dismisses Employee for Transmitting Consumer Data to Personal Email

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has reported a data breach involving an employee who forwarded personal information of over 256,000 Americans to a personal...

Barclays Eagle Labs Aims to Boost UK Technology Innovation

In an interview with UKTN, David Hamilton, the head of implementation at Barclays Eagle Labs, revealed that the bank plans to dedicate a significant portion...

Nasdaq Launches Technology to Expand Global Carbon Markets

Exchange operator Nasdaq has introduced technology designed to securely digitize the issuance, settlement, and custody of carbon credits. Nasdaq plans to offer this technology to...

The Current Landscape of Cross-Border Payments

Moderating the second panel of the day, Niamh Curran, senior reporter at Finextra, engaged in a discussion on real-time cross-border payments with Patrik Havander, head...

OakNorth Collaborates with Marqeta to Provide Commercial Debit Cards for SMEs

UK small business lender OakNorth has partnered with Marqeta to offer commercial debit cards to its customers. OakNorth believes that Marqeta's card issuing platform will...

Belfast Secures £18.9 Million Grant for Cyber AI Hub Development

Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Steve Baker, has announced that the UK Government will invest £18.8 million in Northern Ireland’s security industry to cultivate...