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Integrating ESG into capital allocation and investment strategy is ‘simply good investing’

With wildfires, the Covid-19 pandemic, the strengthening Black Lives Matter movement and the Yemen crisis dominating headlines in 2020, the sustainable investing space has seen demand despite the IMF’s projection that global growth will fall by 3% this year, resulting in the worst recession since the Great Depression and consequences far worse than the global financial crisis.

/people

Santander to hire 3000 techies this year

Spanish banking giant Santander has vowed to hire 3000 IT professionals worldwide this year as it pushes on with its digital transformation plan.

/markets

HSBC launches AI-powered equity index family

HSBC has teamed up with IBM Watson and artificial intelligence specialist EquBot to launch equity index products powered by AI and big data.

/cloud

Using governance to accelerate cloud migration in financial services

Financial institutions have the opportunity to enhance traditional governance processes by building a well-structured cloud service assessment from the ground up, to help demonstrate regulatory compliance when moving to the cloud.

/payments

Visa invests in analytics outfit GoodData

Visa has made an investment in, and formed a strategic partnership with, analytics company GoodData. Details of the investment, made through Visa Ventures, were not disclosed.

/cloud

What does the future hold for a hybrid, multi-cloud future?

In the face of incessant economic volatility, political challenges and being compelled to execute continuous, complex technological adjustments, the financial services industry must acknowledge that the cloud will frame the future.

/security

Trust remains integral to acceptance of AI by UK consumers

In response to the European Commission’s strategy for data released in February, Vikram Khurana, senior associate, Bristows LLC argues that “The EC is saying trust needs to be the bedrock of AI. If the industry can tackle this issue and build trustworthy AI systems, AI is more likely to be accepted and taken up by businesses and individuals.”

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Antony Jenkins on sustainability: ‘You can’t please everyone’

In conversation with Finextra TV, Antony Jenkins, founder and executive chairman of 10x Future Technologies and former Barclays CEO, highlights that the single most important factor in the push toward sustainability is transparency.

/startups

JP Morgan invests in cash management startup Trovata

Trovata, a US startup specialising in automating cash reporting and forecasting through wholesale, multi-bank API data aggregation, has scored $4.3 million in funding led by JP Morgan.

/startups

ABN Amro joins $80m Privitar funding round

UK-based data privacy startup Privitar has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round led by Warburg Pincus and joined by ABN AMro Ventures.

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LSE sustainable business head: ESG is the highest priority for large investors

David Harris, group head of sustainable business of the London Stock Exchange, spoke to Finextra TV about how he works to integrate sustainable finance across the capabilities of the group by considering the flow of data from issuers through to investors and the capabilities needed to support both and ultimately, the entire market.

/retail

VTB Bank and Rostelcom create Big Data joint venture company

Russia's VTB Bank and Rostelcom have invested $12.6 million to create a joint venture which will focus on development and monetisation of products based on Big Data processing, including artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.

/wholesale

HSBC to use third party data to approve rapid loans for Alibaba merchants

HSBC has forged a partnership with Chinese logistics firm Cainiao to offer fast trade finance loans to online merchants using Alibaba's Tmall platform in Hong Kong.

/payments

Swift delays ISO 20022 cross-border payments migration

Swift is to delay the original ISO 20022 migration date for cross border payments by 12 months, from November 2021 to the end of 2022, as banks struggle with decommissioning and preparing existing infrastructure for the transition.

/regulation

Transformative regulation finds its feet in 2020

The true benefits and complexities of transformative regulation across financial services is set to become reality in 2020, as firms work to prepare and implement systems to meet compliance standards while maintaining a competitive edge.

/Big data

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.

/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.

/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.

/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.

/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.