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Banco Santander suffers data breach at third party supplier

Banco Santander has reported a data breach at a third party provider that exposed client and employee data.

/payments

Nine-in-ten Klarna employees now use AI daily

Billed as a game-changer for productivity, up to 90% off Klarna staff are now using generative AI daily, with non-technical groups such as Communications, Marketing, and Legal seeing adoption rates of 92.6%, 87.9%, and 86.4% respectively.

/payments

ECB conducts first DLT trials for wholesale central bank money settlement

The Eurosystem has begun the first of a series of trials to test the use of ditributed ledger technology (DLT) for the settlement of wholesale transactions in central bank money.

/startups

CommBank's x15 Ventures rolls out Truyu digital ID app

In the week that the Australian Federal Government committed $288 million to advance digital ID and tackle identiy theft, CommBank's venture scaler unit x15Ventures has developed Truyu, an app that alerts users when there credentials are at risk of being misused by fraudsters.

/regulation

MPs warn against mass government surveillance of bank accounts

A group of UK MPs has tabled a parliamentary motion calling on the government to remove powers in a new bill that they say would result in the mass surveillance tens of millions of people's bank accounts.

/retail

HSBC adds savings tool to mobile app

HSBC has added a feature to its mobile app in the UK to help customers identify, plan and manage their saving goals.

/payments

Kima bids to build a 'DeFi credit card’

Israeli startup Kima is running a project with Mastercard's FinSec Innovation Lab to connect decentralised finance (DeFi) applications with fiat systems.

/wholesale

UBS CEO warns of risk from delaying Credit Suisse IT integration

UBS is aiming for a swift and smooth IT integration with recently acquired Credit Suisse, bringing over only 10% of its former rival's 3000 applications.

/retail

Temenos ramps up AI offensive

Temenos has announced the launch of its Responsible Generative AI solutions as part of its AI banking platform.

/retail

TabaPay ditches plan to buy assets of bankrupt BaaS firm Synapse

Money moving fintech TabaPay has pulled out of a deal to buy the assets of bankrupt Banking-as-a-Service platform Synapse.

/retail

BBVA runs successful trial of distributed quantum simulation in the cloud

BBVA has completed a successful trial of the execution of quantum algorithms across multiple conventional servers in the AWS cloud.

/startups

'Neobank in a box' startup Fintech Farm raises $32 million

Fintech Farm, a London-based startup that helps banks in emerging markets to launch all-digital neobanks, has raised $32 million in funding.