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Standard Chartered names global head of data analytics and AI

UK bank Standard Chartered has bolstered its data analytics capabilities with the appointment of former HSBC executive Yusuf Demiral.

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Saudi academics create world's fastest quantum random number generator

Research scientists at Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) have reported the fastest quantum random number generator (QRNG) to date based on international benchmarks.

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GIST Impact partners with Global Canopy to help financial institutions assess deforestation risk

The collective goal of this partnership is to make deforestation analysis the norm at every financial institution.

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16 game-changing startups to pitch at EBAday’s Fintech Zone in Paris

EBAday, the premier conference for payments and transaction banking executives, set to take place on 27-28 May 2025 at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, will yet again feature a dedicated Fintech Zone where 16 innovative startups have been selected to showcase their products to senior decision-makers in the European payments industry.

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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.

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Sustainable Finance Live 2024: How can natural capital be assessed and why does it need to be?

Kicking off Sustainable Finance Live 2024 at Events@No6 in London, Richard Peers, founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor at Finextra opened with an introduction outlining the themes and objectives of this year’s event, to understand natural capital risk, pricing, and trade.

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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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Google PaLM 2 AI model under scrutiny by Irish watchdog Data Protection Commission

As the national independent authority in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) is responsible for protecting the personal data of individuals in the EU in accordance with GDPR, the EU's Law Enforcement Directive (LED) and Irish ePrivacy Regulations.

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HSBC partners Google Cloud to back climate tech firms

HSBC has joined forces with Google Cloud to offer venture debt financing options to climate technology companies.

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BNY Mellon partners Microsoft for data and analytics

BNY Mellon has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft to offer its buy and sell side clients a cloud-based data and analytics platform.

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Survey reveals firms doubts over data quality

As many as three quarters of corporate, trust and fund services firms do not trust their own data, suggests recently published research.

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EBAday: Liquidity management is a balancing act that can be improved by instant payments

The penultimate session of EBAday 2023 covered the myriad of challenges currently being faced in liquidity management. The impact of regional conflicts and subsequent sanctions, as well as supply chain issues, have made the future volatile.

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EBAday: Banks exploring new strategies in AI, data, and cloud

The afternoon of the first day of EBAday kicked off with the panel ‘How new technologies are transforming banking’ in breakout room 2. Panelists Cal Corcoran, vice president and global head of banking at Microsoft, Simone Lofgen, managing director of payments platforms at Commerzbank, Andre Martins, head of banking innovation and open finance at NTT Data, and Simone Satan, global head of digital market management and treasury services at BNY Mellon discussed AI, cloud computing, and innovative automation technologies being used to transform the payments industry in a session moderated by Graeme Jeffrey, partner at Bain & Company.

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Financial Cloud Summit 2023: ChatGPT says banks should be multi-cloud

Cloud migration is a major part of the financial industry today; traditional banks and emerging fintechs are in process of transitioning online to cloud services to become scalable, agile, and operate at a higher level.

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Financial Cloud Summit 2023: Exponential change is coming

Kicking off Finextra’s inaugural Financial Cloud Summit, former Dragon’s Den dragon Piers Linney, entrepreneur and investor, founder and CEO of Moblox, set the scene for the day, focusing on cloud strategy, migration and optimisation.

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Sustainable Finance Live hackathon winners announced

At Sustainable Finance Live last week, a concurrent hackathon was held alongside the keynotes and panel sessions.

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Sustainable Finance Live: How can nature be made bankable?

How are different financial institutions approaching climate strategy and sustainable investment? The potential for sustainable investment was explored in the keynote presentation: How can nature be made bankable? by founder of ResponsibleRisk Richard Peers and CEO of sustainable investment company Mirova, Philippe Zaouati.

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Sustainable Finance Live: Is sustainable finance sustainable?

Sustainable Finance Live kicked off Tuesday morning in a hybrid format, in-person and online, where leaders discussed the problem statements and solutions that are defining the sustainable finance industry today.

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Sustainable Finance Live sneak peek: ESG risks - how can we build in sustainability?

Finextra spoke to Adam Webb, COO, Risk at ICBC Standard Bank, ahead of Sustainable Finance Live about his experience in risk management and mitigating climate risk.

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APImetrics, tomato pay, Finextra report finds neobank API call quality outperforms traditional banks

APImetrics, Finextra and tomato pay have released a report capturing the performance of UK open banking providers over the period July 2021 to July 2022, analysing over 17 million functional API calls.