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NextGen Nordics: Beyond P27, there is still hope for Nordic harmonisation

NextGen Nordics 2023 kicked off with a panel on the challenges and opportunities in the road for harmonisation across transaction banking services.

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Jeremy Hunt dismisses AI warnings and insists UK leads the AI race

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt waved away concerns on rapid AI development at a Politico event in London on Wednesday, and insisted that the UK needs to step up in the global AI race.

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IFGS 2023: FCA and NayaOne partner on permanent digital sandbox

Jessica Rusu, chief data, information and intelligence officer, FCA took to the stage at Innovate Finance Global Summit, held at the Guildhall in London, to discuss the role of regulation in protecting both the public and the industry's infrastructure.

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Amazon intensifies AI race with new suite of tools

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a series of products aimed at helping other companies develop their own chatbots and image-generation services, backed by artificial intelligence (AI). The move comes as part of a wider AI race following the popularity of ChatGPT, and Google’s move into generative AI Bard.

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BIS Innovation Hub opens in Paris and Frankfurt

The Bank for International Settlements has opened its European Hub, located in both Paris and Frankfurt, with a focus on decentralised finance, wholesale CBDC, cyber security and green finance.

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Cloud scaling and the challenges seen by IBM

On the 8th of February 2023, the US Department of the Treasury launched a report addressing regulatory guidance on the use of cloud in the private sector. Speaking on digital transformation in relation to concerns raised in the report, Prakash Pattni, managing director for financial services digital transformation at IBM, observes how financial institutions are adapting to the guidelines put forward by the US Treasury.

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Fintech deals in Singapore reach record levels

Singapore's fintech sector enjoyed a mixed year in 2022, with a record level of activity but a significant drop in the level of funding, according to recently published data.

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Financial Cloud Summit 2023: Exponential change is coming

Kicking off Finextra’s inaugural Financial Cloud Summit, former Dragon’s Den dragon Piers Linney, entrepreneur and investor, founder and CEO of Moblox, set the scene for the day, focusing on cloud strategy, migration and optimisation.

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Kalifa Review, two years on: What progress has been made?

Ron Kalifa OBE’s fintech review, released in 2021, outlined a comprehensive plan to bolster the UK sector’s dominance across the globe at an inflection point between opportunity and risk for the industry in 2021.

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BIS Innovation Hub sets sights on stablecoin monitoring

The Bank for International Settlements has set out the plans for its Innovation Hub network in 2023, including work on the systemic monitoring of stablecoins.

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FCA sets up Innovation Advisory Group

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed seven advisors to a new Innovation Advisory Group (IAG) which will meet for the first time this month.

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Finextra's top research reports of 2022

With 2022 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.

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Finextra's top Future Series reports of 2022

With 2022 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded Future Series reports over the course of the past year. Finextra’s Future Series is an annual editorial report series covering a fintech topic at a high level and includes interviews from financial institutions, usually a global range from EMEA, APAC and the Americas.

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Finextra's top impact study reports of 2022

With 2022 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.

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Financial Cloud Summit sneak peek: headline speakers announced

Finextra will be hosting its inaugural Financial Cloud Summit conference on 2nd March 2023 in-person at King's Place in London.

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Combatting fraudsters is a ‘cat-and-mouse’ game - ING

In conversation with Finextra, Beate Zwijnenberg, chief information security officer at ING, canvassed new trends in cybercrime and how the banking giant is working against phishing and scams for its customers.

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Sustainable Finance Live: How can nature be made bankable?

How are different financial institutions approaching climate strategy and sustainable investment? The potential for sustainable investment was explored in the keynote presentation: How can nature be made bankable? by founder of ResponsibleRisk Richard Peers and CEO of sustainable investment company Mirova, Philippe Zaouati.

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Sustainable Finance Live: What is the role of risk in greening finance and financing green?

An increasing number of financial institutions are reconstructing the structure of their internal risk cycles and ESG reporting to align with ILAAP and ICAAP guidelines. Looking at the future of risk reporting in finance, head of model risk governance at Metro Bank, Suresh Sankaran discussed ESG data and risk in his Keynote: What is the role of risk in greening finance and financing green?

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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.

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ESG hacking: creating opportunities for sustainable innovation

As part of Finextra’s fifth Sustainable Finance Live conference, a concurrent Hackathon is taking place. The collaborative event will take place from the 29th of November to the 2nd of December and teams will have access to workshops, panels and the necessary technology to develop projects in real-time.