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Norway has struck a deal to add the krone to the Eurosystem’s Target Instant Payment Settlement (Tips) service.

Africa-based startup Tehanu has completed its first ‘interspecies money’ transfer, which enables the transfer of funds through digital wallets associated with the conservation of Rwandan mountain gorillas.

Singapore-based payments firm Airwallex is in talks to raise $200 million at a $6 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg.

ANZ is the latest bank to join the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s multi-year Project Guardian initiative to explore asset tokenisation applications.

For the second time in three months, the NatWest banking app has suffered technical issues, leaving some customers unable to make payments or fund transfers on Friday morning.

The European Central Bank is inviting experts from the mobile tech industry to advise on the development of an offline model for digital euro payments.

The Bank of England and the BIS Innovation Hub have developed a system that gives supervisors near real time data about stablecoins’ liabilities and their backing assets.

A US district court judge has rejected an agreed $30 billion settlement over swipe fees between the two major card schemes and US merchants partially on the grounds that Visa and Mastercard have the financial armoury to pay “substantially” more.

Digital banking giant Chime has acquired employee rewards startup Salt Labs. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Hackers are trying to sell what they claim are the bank account details of 30 million Santander customers for $2 million.