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UK fintechs have an overall positive impact on the country - Innovate Finance

The FinTech Impact Report 2024 reports that the UK fintech sector has improved financial inclusion and sustainable initiatives across the country.

11 October 2024

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live: The role of data for Nature Capital

In the last panel of the day, moderated by Richard Peers, founder of ResponsibleRisk, the discussion centred around the role of data in nature intelligence and financial services.

09 October 2024

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2024: Analysing the transaction journey and assessing nature-related risk

Dr Nicola Ranger, director of the global finance and economy group, Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, spoke on her work at the institute in a keynote and then with moderator Richard Peers in the Q&A session, ‘What’s missing from the transaction journey?’ Dr Ranger outlined how nature risks are priced and which methods the Green Finance Institute (GFI) has put forward to assess nature-related risk.

08 October 2024

News/ai

Thoughtworks collaborates with Singapore AI for GenAI research

Global technology consultancy Thoughtworks has collaborated with AI Singapore to develop generative AI (GenAI) and its adoption.

04 October 2024

News/ai

Blackstone to build £10bn AI data centre in UK

Private equity giant Blackstone has confirmed a £10 billion investment in an AI data centre in the North East of England, creating around 4000 jobs.

30 September 2024

News/wealth

BlackRock joins Fintech Scotland

The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, has announced its membership of Fintech Scotland, the promotional for the country's fintech sector.

24 September 2024

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2024: Bank of Spain releases report on satellite data

The Bank of Spain has recently released a report outlining the potential of satellite data to make a difference in collecting climate-related data.

06 September 2024

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2024: Planet Tracker tackles environmental impact data

Leading up to Finextra’s annual green conference, Sustainable Finance Live, which will take place at Events@No6 on October 8 in London, keynote speaker and founder of ResponsibleRisk Richard Peers interviewed Robin Millington, CEO of Planet Tracker.

23 August 2024

News/markets

UK Elections 2024: Labour's landslide victory

Keir Starmer’s Labour Party wins by majority in the UK general election that took place yesterday.

05 July 2024

News/payments

EBAday 2024: Navigating the oxymoron of cross-border real time payments

The second day of EBAday 2024 in Lisbon kicked off with exciting panel sessions discussing real-time payments.

19 June 2024

News/ai

Finextra launches NextGen:AI, a new event defining AI's future in financial services

Join Finextra in London on 26th November 2024 to challenge the perception of AI and its role in financial services.

14 June 2024

News/sustainable

US banks to struggle with climate risk data – Federal Reserve

According to a climate scenario analysis by the Federal Reserve, American banks are set to experience challenges in predicting the impact of climate change on their loan books due data and modelling difficulties.

10 May 2024

News/markets

Alphabet and Microsoft shares soar thanks to AI investments

Share prices of Big Tech companies Google and Microsoft shot up on Friday, a result of large investments in artificial intelligence (AI) that led to immediate revenue returns.

26 April 2024

News/regulation

NextGen Nordics 2024: How will incoming regulation shape payments infrastructure?

At NextGen Nordics 2024 in Stockholm, moderator Debi Bell Hoskings hosted an interactive panel session on new regulation on data and privacy, asking for input from the audience.

24 April 2024

News/payments

UK Smart Data Roadmap unveiled

The UK government has published its Smart Data Roadmap laying out its plans for smart data schemes across seven sectors, including banking and finance.

19 April 2024

News/startups

UK fintech to be elevated to 'ubiquitech' with Smart Data Roadmap, new report reveals

Chair of the Ubiquitech Group Dr. Ruth Wandhöfer has released a report offering practical recommendations for bolstering a digital economy that builds trust, provides access to sustainable infrastructure and secure data highways, and accelerates digital inclusion and education.

21 March 2024

News/payments

MPE 2024: What does a smart city look like?

In a keynote presentation at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2024 in Berlin, Hemlata Narasimhan, president of Elavon explored what a smart city could look like in 2030, using Venice, Italy as a case study.

13 March 2024

News/regulation

Open finance could boost UK GDP by £30.5 billion says CFIT CEO

The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) has published its report on the benefits of open finance in line with the Kalifa Review.

29 February 2024

News/markets

Nvidia's earnings soar as AI hits the mainstream

Nvidia has announced the company’s financial results for the fourth quarter that reported a revenue of $22.1 billion, 22% higher from Q3 and 265% increased from last year.

23 February 2024

News/payments

Finextra's top research reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded whitepapers, sentiment papers and surveys over the course of the past year. These reports are Finextra-led and cobranded, based on editorially balanced, independent, referenced desk-based and online research.

28 December 2023

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