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, ...

Financial services organisations and watchdogs for the sector must embrace AI to counter the threat of AI attacks, a leading ...

NatWest Group has launched a bank-wide accreditation programme in AI and data ethics, rolling out structured training to all ...

UK Finance has announced it is working with some of the UK’s largest banks and building societies on a new digital verification service that would allow customers to prove details such as their ...

FStech brought together senior leaders from across banking, payments and technology at The Future of FinTech 2026 conference in London ...

Santander plans to offer voluntary retirement to as many as 3,000 of its workers in Spain, according to the Spanish business newspaper Expansión. The paper reported that Santander is in active ...

The Financial Conduct Authority has accepted climate risk analytics company Transition Risk Exeter Ltd into its Regulatory Sandbox, allowing the firm to test new methods of assessing climate-related ...

Rathbones has suspended new investments from thousands of higher-risk clients and launched a £60 million remediation programme after a regulatory review identified compliance shortcomings, a move ...

Bank of England is preparing to water down planned restrictions on stablecoins after pressure from the digital assets industry, with deputy governor Sarah Breeden saying that the central bank’s ...

The UK is second on the list of global money laundering hotspots, new research from Credas has found. The study found that an estimated £88 billion is laundered every year in the UK. Around the world, ...

Japan’s three largest banks are set to gain access within weeks to Claude Mythos, the restricted artificial intelligence model developed by Anthropic, marking the first official deployment of the ...