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News/sustainable
Leading bank in Asia, United Overseas Bank (UOB), has today announced it has been approved to join the Equator Principles Association, and has adopted the Equator Principles (EPs).
20 August 2021
News/wholesale
BBVA has inked a deal to integrate cross-border payment and financing services in Ant Group's blockchain platform for global trade, Trusple.
11 August 2021
News/startups
Former Mollie and Klarna senior managers have developed Biller, an AI powered buy now, pay later service for B2B purchasing.
27 July 2021
Stemly, a supply chain inventory manage and finance startup incubated by ING Labs in Singapore, has been spun out as an independent venture.
08 June 2021
News/payments
Standard Chartered has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with payments startup Tazapay to deliver digital escrow services to buyers and sellers looking to trade globally on Proxtera, a business-to-business marketplace network.
21 May 2021
Commerzbank has teamed up with two chemicals companies to test a shared blockchain platform for handling bilateral supply chain processes in a live environment.
News/security
Responding to the recent hack of IT company SolarWinds, the New York State Department of Financial Services says that the next big financial crisis could come from a cyber attack.
04 May 2021
DBS is the first Asian bank to successfully close a trade financing transaction on Ant Group's blockchain platform Trusple.
15 March 2021
According to the UNFCCC High-Level Climate Champions and the Marrakech Partnership Climate Action Pathways report published at the end of 2020, certain notable breakthroughs are moving key sectors closer to the 2050 zero emissions goal, in an attempt to avert the impact of climate change.
02 March 2021
Finextra Research and Responsible Risk today hosted Sustainable Finance Live, the second virtual workshop in a series of events designed to create actionable ESGtech strategies and build an ecosystem of partnerships that will turn strategy into reality.
08 December 2020
News/inclusion
Speaking at Singapore Fintech Festival 2020, CEO of Alphabet Inc and its subsidiary Google Sundar Pichai highlights that “online has been a lifeline in Southeast Asia” and eight out of 10 people have revealed that “technology helped them navigate the pandemic.”
07 December 2020
Ahead of Sustainable Finance Live, a Finextra Research and Responsible Risk event, WWF and The World Bank have released a report highlighting how the financial sector can benefit from the emerging field of spatial finance, complementing existing ESG data streams and providing an outline for a robust taxonomy.
03 December 2020
Lloyds Bank has teamed with UK fintech Demica to roll out a digital supply chain finance platform for business customers.
06 November 2020
Mohammad Kamal Syed, managing director and head of investment management at Coutts & Co, tells Finextra Research of the ‘root and branch uplift’ in the firm’s investment decision making to address ESG goals.
20 October 2020
As wildfires, hurricanes, social and economic unrest and the pandemic play out across the global stage, the final of day of Sibos 2020 focuses on banking for humanity, the impact of ESG and the triple bottom line as a driver for sustainable business.
08 October 2020
As Sibos 2020 approaches, we look back to some of the predictions and forecasts made in 2010 and pick through what other lessons can be learnt from the post-financial crisis world to inform strategy in the not dissimilar economic environment of today.
28 September 2020
The UN Secretary-General’s Task Force on Digital Finance has today launched an Action Agenda that justifies how harnessing digitalisation can empower citizens to be in control of their finances. This will in turn ultimately align with the needs collectively manifested in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
26 August 2020
Amid growing criticisms surrounding the misuse of supply chain finance, an industry forum has put out a paper conceding that the issue is "worrying" but insisting that it is not widespread.
In June 2020, Finextra Research welcomed industry experts to Sustainable Finance Live, the first virtual interactive workshop to discuss how financial services firms and technology companies can achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
27 July 2020
Ping An and JPMorgan are to join a $60 million financing round in supply chain finance outfit Taulia, according to the Wall Street Journal.
09 July 2020
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