Revolut is aiming to go public within two years and is targeting a $150 billion valuation. That would make it one of the most valuable financial firms in Europe, above the combined market values of several major banks.
Finextra ↗Wealth.com raised $65 million in an oversubscribed Series B round with participation from Google Ventures and Citi Ventures. The AI-powered wealth management platform plans to use the funding to expand its business and product development.
Finextra ↗Piraeus Bank has launched a dedicated AI hub with Accenture and Anthropic. The goal is to move from isolated AI projects to a unified, enterprise-wide capability.
Finextra ↗The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology says financial health tools could unlock £5 billion in lending for small and medium-sized businesses. The claim highlights a potential market opportunity for lenders using new data and assessment tools. It is an industry outlook piece rather than a regulatory or enforcement development.
Finextra ↗Coinbase has begun offering UK customers the ability to borrow USDC stablecoins against bitcoin or ethereum collateral. The move expands the company’s consumer crypto lending products in Britain.
Finextra ↗Chase UK has hired Monzo chief banking officer Kunal Malani as its new CEO. The move signals a leadership change at the digital bank, but the article does not indicate any regulatory or compliance event.
Finextra ↗NextGen Nordics 2026 will take place on 28 April 2026 in Stockholm. The event will gather speakers from banking, payments, regulation, and fintech to discuss the future of money in the Nordic region and beyond.
Finextra ↗Latin American digital bank Plata has raised $405 million in a Series C funding round. The deal values the Mexican neobank at $5 billion, highlighting continued investor interest in digital banking in the region.
Finextra ↗Finova has opened a new Manchester office and created more than 50 jobs. The move expands the UK cloud-based mortgage, savings and lending software provider’s footprint.
Finextra ↗JMR Infotech announced that Tadhamun Bank Libya will implement its AI-powered Smart Social Banking Chatbot and Voicebot. The move expands the long-standing partnership between the two firms and adds another customer-facing banking automation tool.
Finextra ↗Amazon is investing another $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a circular AI partnership. In return, Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS cloud services.
TechCrunch ↗Reports say the NSA is using Anthropic’s restricted Mythos AI model even as tensions continue with the Pentagon. The story highlights government interest in advanced AI tools despite internal defense-sector friction.
TechCrunch ↗Fermi’s CEO and CFO have suddenly left the AI nuclear power startup. The company, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, has been facing challenges with its Texas AI campus plans.
TechCrunch ↗Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6, an open-source multimodal agentic model aimed at long-running coding and software engineering tasks. The model is described as scaling to 300 sub-agents and 4,000 coordinated steps for autonomous workflows.
MarkTechPost ↗Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in seven new countries, including Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The feature is available on desktop and iOS in all of these markets except Japan.
TechCrunch ↗The article says a specific sentence pattern has become so common in AI-generated text that it is now almost a reliable sign the writing is synthetic. It highlights how this phrasing has spread enough to be recognized as a strong clue of AI authorship.
TechCrunch ↗This tutorial shows how to build an end-to-end implementation around Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B. It covers multimodal inference, thinking control, tool calling, MoE routing, RAG, and session persistence in a practical coding workflow.
MarkTechPost ↗This article walks through a notebook-based implementation using Microsoft’s Phi-4-mini-instruct model. It demonstrates 4-bit quantized inference, reasoning, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, and LoRA fine-tuning in one pipeline.
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