Latest Big data News: Finextra Research

The Future of Regulation: 2020 Predictions

04 March 2020 578 downloads

Pope weighs in on AI ethics debate

The Pontiff is the latest public figure to offer an opinion on the ethics of using artificial intelligence (AI), issuing a set of principles on the use of new technology.

28 February 2020

News/cloud

Success in the cloud: Strategic insights and best practices

The cloud is now the new normal and financial institutions are harnessing and deriving value from the massive amount of data that they possess. Finextra Research’s latest report in association with Amazon Web Services highlights that technology needs to be adopted as quickly, easily and cost-effectively as possible, for scale and flexibility.

21 February 2020

News/ai

EU sets out plans for Big Data and AI

The European Commission is to invest EUR2 billion in the creation of an EU cloud alliance as part of an overarching strategy to leverage the region’s strong industrial data sets and boost development of AI technologies.

20 February 2020

News/regulation

FCA flags regulatory gaps and IT outages as key areas of focus

In its annual Sector Views report, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority warns of the growing risks to consumers in the retail banking and payments sector, as regulatory protection struggles to keep pace with technology-driven innovation and incumbents grapple with legacy limitations.

19 February 2020

News/Big data

Bank of Singapore names Le Cotonnec chief data and innovation officer

Bank of Singapore has appointed Celine Le Cotonnec to the newly created position of chief data and innovation officer.

19 February 2020

Research/Big data

The Future of Cloud: Powering the Financial Services Industry

19 February 2020 1001 downloads

News/sustainable

Standard Chartered and Imperial College partner to tackle climate change

The bank will work with Imperial College Business School’s Centre for Climate Finance and Investment over four years to “uncover solutions that will help embed climate risk identification and management into financial decisions.”

14 February 2020

News/sustainable

BBVA responsible business global head: “UN SDGs are the biggest business opportunity for banks”

Finextra Research spoke to Antoni Ballabriga, global head of responsible business at BBVA, co-chair of the global steering committee and European banks’ representative for the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) about sustainable finance in the investment and lending space.

11 February 2020

News/Big data

Refinitiv partners with Google Cloud to power Tick History database

Refinitiv has announced the launch of its Tick History dataset on the Google Cloud platform, catering to a growing appetite for quant-trading technology.

11 February 2020

News/ai

Fintech workforce to expand 19% by 2030 thanks to AI, Cambridge University predicts

In a recent report, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) found that rather than observing AI as a single instrument for blanket application across the industry, AI can be viewed as a toolkit that is being used to tinker and build services in an abundance of ways to achieve a variety of objectives.

07 February 2020

News/ai

Accenture boosts analytics skills with Mudano acquisition

Accenture has agreed to buy Mudano, a data consultancy that works with UK financial services firms. Financial terms were not disclosed.

03 February 2020

Research/Big data

The Future of Cybersecurity: 2020 Predictions

28 January 2020 721 downloads

News/sustainable

Davos 2020: Refinitiv launches sustainable data alliance

Announced at the World Economic Forum, Refinitiv will join forces with influential global bodies to create a first-of-its-kind alliance to monitor sustainable finance through data.

22 January 2020

News/sustainable

Betting on AI to reduce risk in sustainable investment

The quest toward improving corporate sustainability is mired by uncertainty: uncertainty of emissions volume, extreme weather events, timing of such events, and inevitably, the toll they may take on investment. This uncertainty is regarded by investors as risk.

22 January 2020