While October’s full of tricks and treats, Visa’s new VAMP rules have merchants and acquirers wondering which one they’re about to get.

Vivid Money, the European financial platform for SMEs and freelancers, today launches its AI-powered Digital Employees to empower European SMEs. With the new AI assistants, companies can increase their productivity by 1.3x1, save up to 13 hours of productive time per week2, and reduce monthly operating costs by up to €4,0003.

Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT) (“Alkami”), a digital sales and service platform provider for financial institutions in the U.S., today announced the upcoming webinar, Inside the Layers: Strategies for Smarter Security & Fraud Prevention, that will be a panel discussion designed to help financial institutions defend against evolving fraud threats through layered security.

As U.S. lawmakers weigh new legislation being described as a “Patriot Act for Digital Assets”, Web3 institutions are facing mounting pressure to reconcile privacy with compliance.

ClearBank reveals that large UK businesses now view embedded financial services as a strategic boardroom decision and business growth driver

Temenos has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Wealth Management Technology Services for Investment Advisors

Ahead of National Pension Tracing Day, Aegon, one of the UK’s largest pension and investment providers, has announced that its new workplace pension app, Mylo, has found £36 million in lost pension savings for its customers in just its first month.

Gradient Labs – the only AI support agent built for financial services – has announced its launch in the United States following a year of rapid growth in Europe.

FintechOS today announced rapid growth and significant milestones that underscore its accelerating momentum worldwide

Treasury Prime announced today it has joined the U.S. Bank Connected Partnership Network.

Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN), the most comprehensive technology platform for investment management, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management today announced an integration that transforms how hedge funds manage cash. The solution links Enfusion by CWAN directly with the Morgan Money® trading platform, J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s short-term investment management solution, giving clients a single, automated workflow for investing and monitoring idle cash.

Samba Bank, a subsidiary of Saudi National Bank, rolls out modern fraud detection system with advanced AI/ML-powered BPC’s SmartVista Fraud Management, completing the second phase of its end-to-end digital-banking transformation and meeting every provision of the State Bank of Pakistan’s BPRD Circular No. 04 of 2023.

International SME financier, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has launched a new global website as part of its growth strategy, marking a significant milestone in its digital transformation.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) and Tokenovate have today announced the establishment of a new taskforce within the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) to accelerate operationalization of the Common Domain Model (CDM).

Three in five (59%) people are concerned about rumoured changes to pension tax-free cash rules in the Autumn budget, research by Nucleus has found.