Human resources

Research/Human resourcesImpact Study

Bank Legacy Transformation: Exploring the Solutions

14 January 2025 452 downloads

News/retail

Bookkeeping platform Bench shuts down; quickly gets acquired

Days after closing down, Vancouver-based bookkeeping fintech Bench has been acquired by human resources tech startup Employer.com.

06 January 2025

News/payments

Checkout.com cuts staff after sales losses

UK-based payments processor Checkout.com has cut almost a quarter of its work force following a drop in revenue.

02 January 2025

News/inclusion

US agencies provide advice for combatting elder financial exploitation

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and state financial regulators issued a joint statement this week.

04 December 2024

News/payments

Deel acquires Wise competitor Atlantic Money

Digital payroll vendor Deel has acquired Atlantic Money, a UK fintech startup set up to compete against money transfer giant Wise.

02 December 2024

Long read/Human resources

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

Redressing the ageing market data workforce

28 November 2024

News/regulation

Fintech hiring compensates for declining demand among banks for risk and compliance roles

The UK job market for risk and compliance roles is undergoing a significant transformation, with the fintech sector leading the charge.

28 November 2024

News/ai

NextGen: AI: 2025 will be the year of AI deployment

At Finextra’s first NextGen: AI event, Roberto Napolitano, chief marketing officer at Innovate Finance, moderated the panel session: ‘How do we deploy?’ in conversation with speakers Sandra Blaga, strategy and innovation manager of AI delivery at NatWest, and Prashant Jajodia, managing partner and financial services sector lead at IBM.

26 November 2024

News/people

Federal Reserve head will not step down under Trump

Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has stated he will not be stepping down from the position if asked when Donald Trump returns to office.

08 November 2024

News/devops

UK fintechs have an overall positive impact on the country - Innovate Finance

The FinTech Impact Report 2024 reports that the UK fintech sector has improved financial inclusion and sustainable initiatives across the country.

11 October 2024

News/sustainable

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.

08 October 2024

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2024: The role of ESG data in the nature capital marketplace

Founder of ResponsibleRisk, Richard Peers, moderated a session at Sustainable Finance Live called ‘What is the role of impact and ESG data in ensuring economic profit of nature capital in the marketplace?’, with speakers Cain Blythe, founder of Ecosulis and Credit Nature; Simon Crichton, head of nature, food, and resource at Triodos Bank; Giles D'Souza strategic business lead in remote sensing and GIS at Planet; James Lockhart-Smith, VP sustainable finance at Verisk Maplecroft; and Donna Lyndsay, strategic market lead environment and sustainability at Ordnance Survey.

08 October 2024