Ant Financial, Coinbase, Lydia, Visa in payments this week

Ant Financial is planning to raise around $5bn in a funding round expected to value the Alibaba payments affiliate at more than $100bn Coinbase, which has blamed recent changes to the coding of cryptocurrency purchases for a recent spate of erroneous charges against...

Startling, NatWest, Monzo and Tandem in banking

Starling Bank is to integrate its app with PensionBee’s pension transfer service and is planning further partnerships with Wealthsimple, Habito and Kasko in the near future, according to City AM. NatWest has hosted a speed dating event to demonstrate how much...