Tagged: united kingdom

October 15, 2026 @ 1:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest has teamed up with Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) to refine the speech recognition capabilities of its conversational AI spending assistant, enabling it to handle a broader range of British regional accents and everyday financial language more effectively. The collaboration targets the Spending Insights tool, a… Read More

October 15, 2026 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Starling Bank has announced a major step in UK financial technology by partnering with NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) to develop a specialized Transactional Foundation Model (TFM). This initiative marks the first time a banking AI model of this type will be both trained and hosted entirely… Read More

October 14, 2026 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Speaking to the Atlantic Council this past week, Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said there was no rush to issue a digital pound or central bank digital currency (CBDC). The comments came during the IMF Annual Meeting in Bangkok and were first reported… Read More

October 14, 2026 @ 2:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With one year remaining until the UK, EU and Switzerland shift to next-day securities settlement, banking and financial institutions across these markets are concentrating on demonstrating operational readiness for the transition. The coordinated move to a T+1 cycle is scheduled for 11 October 2027. Under… Read More

October 13, 2026 @ 1:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the National Crime Agency have partnered to arrest several individuals allegedly linked to insider trading violations. According to an FCA statement, authorities arrested 3 individuals and searched five homes. The enforcement action saw officers seize 30 mobile phones,… Read More

October 12, 2026 @ 5:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wise (NASDAQ: WSE), the payments company that has branched into savings and investment products, has identified a multi-year flaw in tax paperwork sent to roughly four thousand of its UK based customers. The problem affected users of its Wise Assets offering, specifically the interest and stocks… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 11:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Monzo is accelerating efforts to attract private-equity capital after talks on a full sale to Brazil’s Nubank broke down over price. The eleven-year-old UK digital bank, which has spent the past year navigating boardroom friction while hunting growth funding, has held early discussions in recent… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom has moved its first digitally native government bond closer to market by naming the banks that will lead the pilot sale. On 6 October 2026, HM Treasury appointed Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest and RBC Capital Markets as joint lead managers… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 5:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Veremark, a background-checking platform that has generated success, will see its secondary offering listed on Crowdcube close today. As it stands currently, 51 investors have committed £504,461 (an average of almost £10,000) to purchase insider shares. As was previously reported, Veremark generated annual revenue of £6.7… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A couple in the West Midlands has described a violent home invasion in which masked intruders beat the husband and threatened to kill his pregnant wife and their unborn child unless cryptocurrency was handed over. The attack took place on the afternoon of 13 December… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Barclays (NYSE: BCS) is widening its partnership with Anthropic, bringing the Claude family of models deeper into day-to-day work across the British universal bank. The October 1, 2026 announcement frames the move as an effort to place secure, enterprise-grade systems throughout global operations, with particular… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilch, the London-founded consumer credit fintech, has taken a concrete step toward going public by inviting investment banks to compete for advisory roles on a possible stock market debut as early as 2027. The move, reported in late September 2026, would represent a notable boost… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 10:12 am By JD Alois  |  

This week the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced a new “Crypto Gateway“ for firms to register to provide crypto services in the country. A grace period applies: firms must apply by February 28, 2027, to provide services, with the new regime coming into force… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 2:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s competition regulator has raised formal concerns that The Brink’s Company’s planned takeover of NCR Atleos could reduce rivalry in parts of the UK cash-machine market. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the $6.6 billion cash-and-stock transaction may be expected to result in a… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 2:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has taken on an expanded role within institutional blockchain infrastructure after being named a Super Validator on the Canton Network. The appointment, disclosed on 28 September 2026, builds on work already under way through LSEG’s Digital Settlement House, or DiSH,… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

BAGEY, Baillie Gifford’s Enhanced Yield Fund, a regulated investment fund, is said to be the UK’s first authorized tokenized fund. According to a note from Anchorage Digital, it will provide digital asset custody for the offering, along with other services. Baillie Gifford is a UK-based… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of the UK’s largest banking institutions has moved tokenised bank money out of laboratory tests and into actual customer activity, completing the first live retail transactions using digital representations of ordinary sterling deposits. The work sits inside the Great British Tokenized Deposit programme,… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 6:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, a leading online investment platform in the UK and Europe, says secondaries have quickly become a significant part of its business. According to a blog post, Crowdcube reports that £543 million in PISCES secondaries are in the pipeline. In total, including the PISCES listings,… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 1:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s financial regulator has stepped up pressure on unregistered digital-asset dealing in the capital, targeting premises suspected of running peer-to-peer cryptocurrency businesses without the approvals required under anti-money-laundering rules. On 10 September 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) joined HM Revenue & Customs and the… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK mortgage overpayment app Sprive has completed a £5.5 million funding round as it seeks to help more homeowners cut interest costs and finish their loans sooner. The London company described itself as the United Kingdom’s independent mortgage overpayment app. The round was led by… Read More