/sustainable
Leading up to Finextra’s annual green conference, Sustainable Finance Live, which will take place at Events@No6 on October 8 in London, keynote speaker and founder of ResponsibleRisk Richard Peers interviewed Robin Millington, CEO of Planet Tracker.
23 August 2024
/people
Ashley Alder, FCA chair, has been accused of revealing the identity of an internal whistleblower despite the regulator's policy to protect their identity.
/inclusion
MUFG Bank is investing another $333 million in Indian digital lender DMI Finance at a valuation of around $3 billion.
/startups
Visa has joined a $5 million funding round in Kenyan payroll provider Workpay.
22 August 2024
/payments
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is delivering near real-time cross-border payments to businesses and consumers who receive international payments from customers of US bank BNY.
/ai
BBVA has doubled the number of staff working on artificial intelligence to more than 400 as it opens new 'AI Factories' in Mexico and Turkey.
/security
Security researchers have identified a new phishing technique using progressive web applications (PWAs) to target customers of banks in Eastern Europe.
Former Google and Ripple executives have raised $8.5 million for a startup, called Skyfire, building a payments network that enables AI agents to make autonomous transactions.
Klarna has acquired the assets of defunct buy now, pay later firm Laybuy in New Zealand.
21 August 2024
Starling Bank has launched a recruitment search for a group head of investor relations who will be charged with steering the company towards a possible IPO.
/retail
Fintech VC Molten Ventures has seen the value of its £7 million initial stake in Revolut boosted to £160 million following the recent share sale which valued the SuperApp at $45 billion.
Fintilect, a transatlantic alliance of three fintech firms owned by Parabellum Investments, has launched to provide banks with a full suite of AI-driven customer engagement tools.
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