Barclays Expands Anthropic Partnership, Targets Claude Code for Most Engineers by 2027
Barclays expects half its developers to use Claude Code by the end of 2026, as it extends Anthropic's AI across operations and engineering.…
Banking
Splitit Brings Debit and Deposit Account Installments to Jack Henry Banks
Splitit has joined the Jack Henry Fintech Integration Network, letting eligible US banks and credit unions offer installments on debit cards and deposit accounts.…
Checkout.com Goes Live With US Direct Acquiring Under Georgia MALPB Charter
Checkout.com has begun direct card acquiring in the US under its Georgia Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank charter, gaining direct access to card networks.…
OpenReserve Emerges From Stealth With OCC Nod for an Onchain National Bank
MoneyLion co-founder Dee Choubey's new venture has preliminary conditional approval to charter a full-service national bank built around onchain settlement and tokenised deposits.…
Revolut Wins OCC Conditional Approval to Form Revolut Bank US
The OCC has granted preliminary conditional approval for Revolut Bank US, National Association, with FDIC and Federal Reserve approvals still ahead of a planned 2027 launch.…
UK Hands the Bank of England a Secondary Objective on Payments and Digital Money
HM Treasury will give the Bank of England a statutory objective to support innovation in payment systems and digital money, including stablecoins, subordinate to financial stability.…
SNB Group Becomes First in MENA to Issue Mastercard's World Legend Tier
SNB Group has become the first financial institution in the Middle East…
Cross River to Power X Money, Embedding FDIC-Insured Accounts Inside X
Cross River Bank will provide the banking infrastructure behind X Money, the…
Flex Files for Utah Industrial Bank Charter to Fund Rent Instalments Directly
Flexible Finance has applied to charter a Utah state-chartered industrial bank,…
Augustus Raises $180m to Build a Chartered Dollar Clearing Bank for Stablecoins
Augustus, the correspondent banking startup formerly known as Ivy, has raised $180m…
Upstart Wins Conditional OCC Approval for Branchless National Bank Charter
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted Upstart conditional…
Nubank Wins Central Bank Approval to Operate in Brazil FX Market
Nubank has secured authorisation from the Central Bank of Brazil to operate…