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News/retail
Metro Bank has had a rough week. News that the UK challenger bank was planning to raise up to £600 million from investors, prompted financial watchdogs to summon the bank’s bosses for a sit-down.
06 October 2023
News/sustainable
Sustainable finance is a swiftly growing industry, with new innovations arising rapidly from all over the world. In conversation with an author of SEB’s Green Bond Report, Finextra considered the latest advancements in the sustainability sector leading up to our annual Sustainable Finance Live conference.
News/inclusion
At the Scottish Financial Enterprise: Extending Financial Inclusion event in Glasgow this afternoon, CEO of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Nikhil Rathi delivered a speech on how the regulator plans to implement policies to include the financially excluded in the current cost of living crisis, calling it “a new enlightenment” for financial inclusion.
29 September 2023
News/devops
Japanese technology giant Fujitsu is to conduct trials into the use of generative AI (gen-AI) for banking operations.
22 September 2023
News/regulation
National Australia Bank (NAB) has been fined $1.4 million ($2.1 million AUD) by the Australian Federal Court for charging customers periodic payments fees without a right to do so.
Deutsche Bank has been reprimanded by German watchdog Bafin for faulty operations and disruption of services in its Postbank unit.
20 September 2023
Revolut will delay filing its 2022 accounts for a second consecutive year, according to Reuters.
News/crime
The FTX legal saga continues to play out as parents of the company’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, have been sued by the FTX parent company Alameda Research, for improperly receiving millions of dollars from the scheme.
ESG reporting software provider, Greenomy, has announced its collaboration with Swift to provide ESG data and reporting capabilities to the Swift community.
19 September 2023
A report published today by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found no proof that politicians bank accounts are being closed as a result of their political views.
Digital transformation solutions provider, CRIF, will offer its ESG audit solution Synesgy to UK businesses.
18 September 2023
News/startups
Innovation within Ireland's banking sector has been hindered by a lack of government funding, claims a newly published report.
15 September 2023
On Thursday, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Caroline Pham advocated for a limited pilot program for digital asset regulation in the US.
08 September 2023
Losses resulting from stolen IT equipment and data, as well as digital and industrial espionage will cost Germany €206 billion in 2023, reveals a survey conducted by digital association Bitkom.
01 September 2023
News/crypto
From today, the UK will enforce new anti-money laundering rules for crypto as set out by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has assessed 9 firms on their savings products following concerns of unfair saving deals for consumers.
The majority of finance professionals do not support the launch of central banking digital currencies (CBDCs) according to recently published research.
17 August 2023
HM Treasury and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) held the eighth UK-Singapore Financial Dialogue in London yesterday, discussing further collaboration in sustainable finance and fintech.
28 July 2023
The former boss of failed crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, is facing a $1bn lawsuit from the company he founded.
21 July 2023
News/markets
Barclays today opened registrations for the Barclays RepoHack 2023, an industry hackathon that will set market participants the challenge of building novel solutions for repo post-trade services.
12 July 2023
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