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Sustainable Finance Live 2024: Analysing the transaction journey and assessing nature-related risk

Dr Nicola Ranger, director of the global finance and economy group, Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, spoke on her work at the institute in a keynote and then with moderator Richard Peers in the Q&A session, ‘What’s missing from the transaction journey?’ Dr Ranger outlined how nature risks are priced and which methods the Green Finance Institute (GFI) has put forward to assess nature-related risk.

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Thoughtworks collaborates with Singapore AI for GenAI research

Global technology consultancy Thoughtworks has collaborated with AI Singapore to develop generative AI (GenAI) and its adoption.

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Blackstone to build £10bn AI data centre in UK

Private equity giant Blackstone has confirmed a £10 billion investment in an AI data centre in the North East of England, creating around 4000 jobs.

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BlackRock joins Fintech Scotland

The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, has announced its membership of Fintech Scotland, the promotional for the country's fintech sector.

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Sustainable Finance Live 2024: Bank of Spain releases report on satellite data

The Bank of Spain has recently released a report outlining the potential of satellite data to make a difference in collecting climate-related data.

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Sustainable Finance Live 2024: Planet Tracker tackles environmental impact data

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.

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UK Elections 2024: Labour's landslide victory

Keir Starmer’s Labour Party wins by majority in the UK general election that took place yesterday.

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EBAday 2024: Navigating the oxymoron of cross-border real time payments

The second day of EBAday 2024 in Lisbon kicked off with exciting panel sessions discussing real-time payments.

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Finextra launches NextGen:AI, a new event defining AI's future in financial services

Join Finextra in London on 26th November 2024 to challenge the perception of AI and its role in financial services.

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US banks to struggle with climate risk data – Federal Reserve

According to a climate scenario analysis by the Federal Reserve, American banks are set to experience challenges in predicting the impact of climate change on their loan books due data and modelling difficulties.

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Alphabet and Microsoft shares soar thanks to AI investments

Share prices of Big Tech companies Google and Microsoft shot up on Friday, a result of large investments in artificial intelligence (AI) that led to immediate revenue returns.

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NextGen Nordics 2024: How will incoming regulation shape payments infrastructure?

At NextGen Nordics 2024 in Stockholm, moderator Debi Bell Hoskings hosted an interactive panel session on new regulation on data and privacy, asking for input from the audience.

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UK Smart Data Roadmap unveiled

The UK government has published its Smart Data Roadmap laying out its plans for smart data schemes across seven sectors, including banking and finance.

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UK fintech to be elevated to 'ubiquitech' with Smart Data Roadmap, new report reveals

Chair of the Ubiquitech Group Dr. Ruth Wandhöfer has released a report offering practical recommendations for bolstering a digital economy that builds trust, provides access to sustainable infrastructure and secure data highways, and accelerates digital inclusion and education.

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MPE 2024: What does a smart city look like?

In a keynote presentation at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2024 in Berlin, Hemlata Narasimhan, president of Elavon explored what a smart city could look like in 2030, using Venice, Italy as a case study.

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Open finance could boost UK GDP by £30.5 billion says CFIT CEO

The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) has published its report on the benefits of open finance in line with the Kalifa Review.

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Nvidia's earnings soar as AI hits the mainstream

Nvidia has announced the company’s financial results for the fourth quarter that reported a revenue of $22.1 billion, 22% higher from Q3 and 265% increased from last year.

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Finextra's top research reports of 2023

With 2023 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 impact study reports of 2023

With 2023 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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Fujitsu partners with Palantir Technologies to boost business transformation

Sustainable digital transformation company Fujitsu has allied with Palantir Technologies to boost business transformation in Japan and solve societal challenges.