Year: 2025

Outgoing Monzo CEO TS Anil Was Allegedly Asked to Leave by FinTech’s Board
Outgoing Monzo CEO TS Anil Was Allegedly Asked to Leave by FinTech’s Board
December 16, 2025  |  Personnel

Monzo CEO TS Anil announced in October plans to hand the company over to new leadership. The company said the transition was happenstance. It had...

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Rivian Unveils Custom AI Chip, Reduces Dependence on Nvidia
Rivian Unveils Custom AI Chip, Reduces Dependence on Nvidia
December 16, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Rivian Automotive unveiled a custom artificial intelligence (AI) chip and a comprehensive autonomy platform designed and engineered in-house. The announcement, made at the company’s first...

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Visa Begins Rolling Out Stablecoin Settlement in US
Visa Begins Rolling Out Stablecoin Settlement in US
December 16, 2025  |  Cryptocurrency

Visa has begun rolling out stablecoin settlement in the United States, allowing its U.S. issuer and acquirer partners to settle with Visa in Circle’s USDC...

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Monzo Acquires Habito to Bolster Mortgage Offerings
Monzo Acquires Habito to Bolster Mortgage Offerings
December 16, 2025  |  Partnerships

U.K. digital bank Monzo says it is set to acquire British mortgage broker Habito. The company says the deal, announced Tuesday (Dec. 16), will make...

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Banks Abandon Lift and Shift for Cloud-Native Payments
Banks Abandon Lift and Shift for Cloud-Native Payments
December 16, 2025  |  Payments Innovation

Watch more: Live Roundtable: AWS and Form3’s Mark Smith and Mark Fieldhouse The cloud hasn’t just modernized payments. It’s made them programmable. The institutions embracing...

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Why Authentication Now Determines Conversion Rates
Why Authentication Now Determines Conversion Rates
December 16, 2025  |  Authentication

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: Entersekt’s Dewald Nolte The most important players in digital commerce are usually the ones consumers never see. They work...

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Big Brands Pile Into Stablecoins but Create a New Problem
Big Brands Pile Into Stablecoins but Create a New Problem
December 16, 2025  |  Blockchain

Watch more: Digital Shift: Conduit’s Kirill Gertman Six months is an eternity in crypto. It’s also becoming one in stablecoins, where the last half-year has...

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Credit Is Being Rewritten and Banks Are Running Out of Time, Says Thredd CEO
Credit Is Being Rewritten and Banks Are Running Out of Time, Says Thredd CEO
December 16, 2025  |  Payment Methods

Watch more: Need to Know: Thredd’s Jim McCarthy There’s new urgency for banks to innovate as consumers embrace flexible repayment options and new digital channels....

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Firms See 63% Fraud Spike With Checks
Firms See 63% Fraud Spike With Checks
December 16, 2025  |  Digital Payments

Faster payments are no longer held back by technology or regulation. They are held back by perception. That is the central tension explored in Reality Check:...

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