Over £1bn stolen by fraudsters in 2024
Criminals stole £1.17 billion through fraud in the UK last year, with a slight fall in authorised push…
ECB sets back deadline for non-bank PSP access to Target
The European Central bank has postponed a deadline for allowing non-bank payment service providers (PSPs) to access central…
BIS and NY Fed test policy implications of future tokenised market
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have published a joint…
ING Belgium launches ‘check the call’ fraud feature
Following success in the Netherlands, ING is rolling out its ‘check the call’ fraud feature to customers in…
Fluency to test offline and programmable payments for ECB’s digital euro project
The European Central Bank has selected UK-based deep tech company Fluency to run intiatives in programmable and offline…
Iran executes a man convicted of spying for Israel, but activists say his confession was forced
Iran hanged a man on Wednesday who was convicted of working as a spy for Israel’s foreign intelligence…
BBVA to offer bitcoin and ether trading and custody services in Spain
BBVA has received the green light from the Spanish Securities and Exchange Commission (CNMV) to provide custody and…
How greenwashing is approached in the UK and EU
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Algo trading firm XTX to build €1bn data centre hub in Finland
Algo trading form XTX Markets is investing €1 billion in a large-scale data centre complex in Finland to…
Ireland proposes legislative changes to tackle scam epidemic
Ireland’s Government has committed to the establishment of a shared fraud database between financial institutions, utility companies, and…
European Court of Auditors flags concerns over EU price interventions in card market
The European Court of Auditors has raised concerns over how the EU goes about price interventions in the…
Congo executes 102 ‘urban bandits’ with 70 more set to be killed, officials say
Some 102 men were executed by the Congolese government in the past week, and 70 more are set…