Finextra Research: Latest fintech news, analysis, interviews, features and opinion by industry experts

Climate and expense management developer Sonya signs partnership with Doconomy

Norwegian climate and expense management developer Sonya has signed a partnership agreement with Swedish impact tech provider Doconomy. With the partnership Sonya will provide their clients with the possibility to measure the carbon footprint from card transactions and additional, future, bank account transactions. The partnership will substantially accelerate Sonya’s bold and ambitious commitment in assisting clients in the transition to a more sustainable way of working and living.

10 December 2021

Company update/sustainable

ICE boosts climate and alternative data capabilities with risQ and Level 11 Analytic acquisitions

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, today announced the acquisitions of risQ and Level 11 Analytics, which deploy sophisticated, data-driven technologies for managing climate change risk and expanding our alternative data capabilities in U.S. fixed income, municipal and mortgage-backed securities markets.

09 December 2021

Company update/sustainable

Interactive Brokers launches mobile trading platform for socially conscious investors

Interactive Brokers Group (Nasdaq: IBKR), a global brokerage firm, today introduced IMPACT to investors worldwide. IMPACT is a patent pending mobile trading application designed to help investors easily align their portfolios with their values and help shape the future they wish to see.

09 December 2021

News/sustainable

Green fintech Sugi joins forces with wealth manager Artorius

Green fintech Sugi has joined forces with Artorius to offer the wealth manager's clients bespoke access to environmental metrics that can help them build greener portfolios.

09 December 2021

Company update/devops

Tech Mahindra adopts Alveo’s FiDaaS solution

Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services, has selected Alveo’s FiDaaS solution, a leader in market data integration and analytics solutions for financial services, to offer its customers integrated Financial Data as a Service Proposition to the Financial Services Industry.

08 December 2021

News/sustainable

Strands and Doconomy partner to provide climate impact PFM tools

Mastercard-backed carbon tracking app Doconomy is collaborating with fintech software developer Strands to offer consumers climate impact and personal finance management products.

02 December 2021

News/startups

Dutch regulator green lights Bunq €193 million Series A

In what has been dubbed the largest Series A in European fintech history, De Nederlansche Bank (DNB) has finalised a €193 million funding round agreed between challenger bank bunq and British private equity firm Pollen Street Capital.

02 December 2021

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live: The state of the supply chain

Sustainable Finance Live is back for another virtual event. Finextra and Responsible Risk have come together for a thought-provoking series of experiential events, welcoming banking and technology ecosystems to collaborate on enabling a wave of change.

01 December 2021

News/sustainable

GDFA launches first ever green fintech taxonomy

The world’s first green fintech taxonomy has today been launched by the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA) and the Swiss Green Fintech network, at the Building Bridges Summit in Geneva.

29 November 2021

Research/ESGtech

Don’t go extinct - How Wealth Managers can remain relevant

29 November 2021 336 downloads

Research/ESGtech

The Future of ESGTech 2022

26 November 2021 620 downloads

News/sustainable

QuantCube launches real-time indicators to track economic and environmental change

Alternative data specialist QuantCube has today launched four new real-time economic indicators, which use intelligence gathered from European Space Agency (ESA) global satellite data to track environmental change.

24 November 2021

News/sustainable

Barclays partners SaveMoneyCutCarbon to help corporate clients go green

Barclays has joined forces with marketplace SaveMoneyCutCarbon to help its corporate clients reduce their carbon, energy and water use.

18 November 2021

Company update/sustainable

Broadridge introduces ESG dashboard

A company’s ESG ratings has become increasingly important to both investors and shareholders alike and achieving an accurate comprehensive understanding of those ratings has grown more complex and time consuming.

15 November 2021

News/sustainable

Singapore Fintech Festival 2021: Scaling sustainable finance for a green recovery

Finextra joined Singapore Fintech Festival session, ‘Scaling Sustainable Finance for a Green Recovery’ today, to hear experts from Ecosystm, FIL Asia, HSBC, SDG Impact Japan and WWF Singapore discuss the financial products and technological tools needed to deliver social and environmental benefits, alongside attractive returns.

10 November 2021

Research/ESGtech

The Future of Wealth Management 2022

10 November 2021 1112 downloads

Research/ESGtech

Addressing the Poverty Premium: A data-led approach

05 November 2021 296 downloads

Company update/sustainable

Boerse Stuttgart sets out net-zero emissions plan

By the end of this year, Boerse Stuttgart Group and its subsidiaries will be carbon-neutral in areas of direct influence by avoidance and reduction of CO2 emissions along with carbon offsets.

30 September 2021

News/sustainable

Exchanges and index providers join net zero alliance

A collection of credit rating agencies, audit networks, index providers and stock exchanges have launched the Net Zero Service Providers Alliance (NZFSPA) that will commit them to tough greenhouse gas emission targets.

24 September 2021

Company update/wealth

LGT Vestra and Wealthify to offer low-fee digital investment service

Wealthify, the multi-award-winning online investment service, today announces its latest partnership with leading wealth management firm, LGT Vestra. The deal will enable advisers to offer a low-fee investment alternative to clients whose capital does not warrant its standard advice fees.

08 September 2021