☄️The Monzo mafia are back in business, with former co-founder Jonas Templestein and ex-VP of architecture Oliver Beattie on the hunt for funds for a new startup that aims to build generative AI coding tools. Delos Financial News

☄️Revolut has rolled out a Point-of-Sale iPad application for businesses in the hospitality industry. Integrated with the Revolut card reader, the new POS product enables businesses to track sales trends, check inventory levels, and make data-driven decisions. Delos Financial News

➡️UK bakery chain Greggs was forced to temporarily close several stores due to payment processing issues, following similar issues faced by other UK retailers over the weekend. Delos Financial News

📣The US has filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the firm of monopolising the smartphone market through a host of actions, including the blocking of third-party apps from offering contactless payments. Delos Financial News

🇮🇴The British Business Bank has announced its Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II providing a £660m fund to small businesses in the North of England. Delos Financial News

📌FundGuard, the cloud-native, AI-powered, multi-asset class investment accounting platform, has closed a $100 million Series C funding round led by Key1 Capital. Delos News⚡

📣Worldcoin, the crypto biometric project fronted by OpenAI boss Sam Altman, has been temporarily banned in Portugal over data privacy concerns.  Delos Financial News

🎙Japanese financial services conglomerate has announced plans to consolidate its various fintech divisions into a single unit. Delos Financial News

⚠️The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched a centralised digital platform that lets financial institutions share customer information in order to tackle money laundering and terrorism financing. Delos Financial News

📊UK-based fintech consultancy Alpha Group is set to move its listing to the London Stock Exchange's (LSE) primary market as part of its expansion. Delos Financial News

👌A collection of seven central banks are working with the Bank for International Settlements to explore tokenisation of cross-border payments. Delos Financial News

✔️Hello Alice, a platform connecting small businesses to capital, connections and opportunities, has closed a Series C funding round joined by QED Ventures and Mastercard. Delos Financial News

🔔Russia's antitrust agency has set its sights on Apple, saying that the US firm has removed banking and payments apps from its App Store, according to Reuters. Delos Financial News

🛠Google is suing two app developers who lured victims into downloading fraudulent investment apps on the Google Play Store. Delos Financial News

🇮🇴UK high street bank Lloyds Bank is reducing the size of its risk management department because it is seen as a “blocker” to the bank’s “strategic transformation”. Delos Financial News

♾Hong Kong's financial regulator is poised to give the green light to the first batch of bitcoin spot ETFs. The move would make Hong Kong the first domicile in the Asia-Pacific region to approve a crypto-backed, exchange-based investment fund. Delos Financial News

📈Mimo, a platform designed to simplify business-to-business payments, has raised £15.5 million in an investment round led by Northzone. Cocoa Ventures, Seedcamp, Upfin VC and a host of angels from fintechs such as Stripe and GoCardless joined the round. Delos Financial News

🇷🇺Russia’s MTS Bank has announced it will hold an initial public offering (IPO), despite current Western sanctions on Russian banks. Delos Financial News

🔔With summer holidays on the horizon, Lloyds Bank is cautioning customers against scams as they book their vacations. Delos Financial News

👋Cloud tokenisation provider TokenEx has agreed a merger with payments orchestration platform Ixopay. Financial terms were not disclosed. Delos Financial News