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Santander hires PayPal veteran to run its Digital Consumer Bank

Santander has hired PayPal exec Nitin Prabhu as global head of its Digital Consumer Bank.

11 December 2024

Trump taps ex-PayPal COO Sacks as crypto and AI czar

Donald Trump says he is appointing former PayPal chief operating officer David Sacks as "White House AI and Crypto Czar".

06 December 2024

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Trump picks Shift4 chief Isaacman as next head of Nasa; Fiserv head Bisignano to run social security

Donald Trump has appointed two prominent fintech CEOs from the payments industry to key roles in his administration.

05 December 2024

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US agencies provide advice for combatting elder financial exploitation

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and state financial regulators issued a joint statement this week.

04 December 2024

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Starling poaches TSB's Hyder to lead SME banking unit

UK digital challenger bank Starling has hired TSB's Adeel Hyder as managing director of SME banking.

27 November 2024

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NextGen: AI: 2025 will be the year of AI deployment

At Finextra’s first NextGen: AI event, Roberto Napolitano, chief marketing officer at Innovate Finance, moderated the panel session: ‘How do we deploy?’ in conversation with speakers Sandra Blaga, strategy and innovation manager of AI delivery at NatWest, and Prashant Jajodia, managing partner and financial services sector lead at IBM.

26 November 2024

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NextGen: AI: How the intelligence revolution is driving what AI can do for banking

At NextGen: AI 2024 taking place for the first time in London, Dr Joe Lyske, co-founder and managing partner of Time Machine Capital², presented the keynote, ‘What can we do with AI?’

26 November 2024

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UK fintech W1tty winds down amid claims of unpaid staffers

UK-based smart finance app W1tty has shut down, with several former employees left claiming that they have not been paid owed wages.

20 November 2024

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TrueLayer lays off 25% of staff in a single day

Open banking vendor TrueLayer reportedly laid of a quarter of staff in September in an attempt to push the loss-making firm to profitability.

18 November 2024

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Bitfinex hacker who stole 120,000 bitcoins gets five years in prison

The man behind a hack on Bitfinex that saw nearly 120,000 stolen from the cryptocurrency exchange has been sentenced to five years in prison.

18 November 2024

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UK Chancellor proposes pension and sustainable finance reforms

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves detailed the financial services strategy launching in March 2025, which will focus on bolstering growth, developing fintech and sustainable finance sectors.

15 November 2024

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Sunshine+Kittens is set on revolutionising financial education for kids

Finextra spoke to co-founder Charles O’Neil and CMO Dan Walsh, of new financial literacy app, Sunshine+Kittens, which is set to launch early next year.

14 November 2024

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