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Finextra's top impact study reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded impact study reports over the course of the past year. Our impact study reports are how-to, best practice guides that support those in the financial industry in their utilisation and optimisation of particular technologies, as well as providing an outlook at future trends to watch.

27 December 2023

News/devops

Fujitsu partners with Palantir Technologies to boost business transformation

Sustainable digital transformation company Fujitsu has allied with Palantir Technologies to boost business transformation in Japan and solve societal challenges.

08 December 2023

News/retail

IBM on how banks are starting to embrace generative AI

Earlier this week, NatWest announced its collaboration with IBM to add generative AI to their chatbot Cora, making it Cora+.

10 November 2023

News/crime

ING CISO says data sharing is key to financial cybersecurity

Compliance has been the traditional focus of IT departments in financial institutions, but as cyber threats continue to evolve, the financial industry needs to look to each other to help protect the wider ecosystem.

30 October 2023

News/cloud

How the cloud can help achieve your firm’s ESG goals

Finextra sat down with chief technology officer at EQ Bank, Dan Broten, at the Temenos Community Forum in Vienna this May, to explore how the cloud can be leveraged to accomplish ESG goals.

27 October 2023

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2023: Democratising geospatial data and informing AI usage

In the keynote and Q&A session, ‘What is the role of AI in sustainable finance as we consider the role of satellite based geospatial data in city design?’, speaker Donna Lyndsay, strategic market lead environment and sustainability at Ordnance Survey, explored the use of data analytics and geospatial technology in green urban planning.

10 October 2023

News/devops

Why AI gender bias is best solved by web3

“Web3 is the ‘perfect platform’ to be compensated for one’s own data,” explains Rumi Morales, a founding director at Navigate, a Web3 platform developing an AI-powered map from crowdsourced data.

22 September 2023

News/regulation

BoE and FCA release data collection transformation update

The Bank of England (BoE) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have met their phase one commitments in ongoing delivery of the Transforming Data Collection (TDC) joint transformation programme.

07 July 2023

News/retail

ING identifies challenges and strategies in delivering ‘superior customer experience’

Data is constantly sucked from our devices, collected, stored, and fed into marketing algorithms, but what else is it used for?

27 June 2023

News/people

BNY Mellon to create AI R&D hub in Ireland

BNY Mellon is to invest €8 million in the creation of a digital R&D hub in Dublin that will drive innovation in AI and data analytics for the US bank's global client base.

30 May 2023

News/startups

FinTech Scotland doubles-down on data to invigorate fintech

Nicola Anderson, CEO of Fintech Scotland, discussed the developments at the organisation and future developments in the Scottish fintech sector.

12 May 2023

News/crime

Quantexa hits $1.8bn valuation

Financial crime fighting platform Quantexa has raised $129 million at a $1.8 billion valuation in a Series E funding round joined by HSBC, BNY Mellon and ABN Amro.

04 April 2023

News/identity

Trust:Live 2023: Evolving digital identity, intelligence and innovation

This week, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions and Finextra Research held Trust:Live 2023, the exclusive in-person event for all fraud and identity decision makers focusing on the latest challenges in establishing trust to protect customers, defend brands, or meet the needs of evolving business models.

15 March 2023

News/identity

Identity decisioning fintech Alloy launches in UK

US fintech Alloy launches in the UK as part of their EMEA growth and global expansion, opening an office in London office and announcing key hires.

09 February 2023

News/people

Santander advertises for 750 tech jobs

Banco Santander has opened technology hubs in Malaga and Warsaw to house 1400 tech professionals as the Spanish giant seeks to turbo charge its digital transformation programme.

14 December 2022

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live: Is sustainable finance sustainable?

Sustainable Finance Live kicked off Tuesday morning in a hybrid format, in-person and online, where leaders discussed the problem statements and solutions that are defining the sustainable finance industry today.

29 November 2022

News/regulation

Kenya beefs up consumer data protection

The Kenyan Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has imposed harsher regulation on protecting consumer data, targeting fintechs and startups in the region.

05 August 2022

News/cloud

Microsoft and Nexi collaborate to innovate across the European payments landscape

Nexi has announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to digitise payments solutions and secure cloud-based infrastructures across the European market.

29 July 2022

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2022 attendee registration now open

Registration for Sustainable Finance Live, Finextra's programme of content, workshops and experiments, designed to create actionable ESG strategies, is now open.

28 July 2022

News/regulation

CFPB strengthens data privacy and cybersecurity with new rules

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has rolled out new regulations on cyber security and data privacy under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

08 July 2022

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