Latest Big data News: Finextra Research

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

News/regulation

Landmark Digital Services Package passed by European Parliament

The European Parliament has approved the Digital Services Package, comprising the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Marketing Act (DMA), originally put forward by the European Commission in December 2020.

06 July 2022

News/people

Lloyds seeks head of data ethics

Lloyds Banking Group is advertising for its first group head of data ethics to help it navigate the complexities around the ever-growing use of data and AI.

01 July 2022

News/sustainable

Research reveals ESG data challenge

Buy-side firms are having to user a greater number of ESG data providers in order to make up for the lack of corporate disclosures around sustainability.

27 June 2022

News/cloud

Alkami to buy Segmint

Cloud-based digital banking technology vendor Alkami has agreed to buy financial data analytics and transaction cleansing provider Segmint for $135.5 million in cash.

29 March 2022

News/sustainable

EDMC study highlights 11 key challenges around ESG data

The EDM Council (EDMC) has just released a study which provides recommendations to ratings providers and data aggregators (RPDAs) on major challenges around the ESG data supply chain.

28 January 2022

News/regulation

Major tech antitrust bill advanced by US Senate vote

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 this week to advance a major tech competition bill, says CNBC.

21 January 2022

News/sustainable

City of London policy chair hails UK capital as a centre of green finance

This week, the FCA and the City of London Corporation held a demo day for its Sustainability Cohort initiative, which aims to further green the financial sector and catalyse the transition to net zero.

18 January 2022

News/devops

ISD FENIQS launches low-code connector for Nordigen's API

IT consulting agency, ISD FENIQS, has today launched a low-code connector on the Outsystems platform, which works with account information on Nordigen's API.

30 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

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