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Sustainable Finance Live: What is the role of risk in greening finance and financing green?

An increasing number of financial institutions are reconstructing the structure of their internal risk cycles and ESG reporting to align with ILAAP and ICAAP guidelines. Looking at the future of risk reporting in finance, head of model risk governance at Metro Bank, Suresh Sankaran discussed ESG data and risk in his Keynote: What is the role of risk in greening finance and financing green?

29 November 2022

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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.

29 November 2022

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Atoa raises $2.2m to take on Visa and Mastercard

Atoa Payments, a UK startup using open banking to offer merchants an alternative to debit card payments, has raised $2.2 million in a pre-seed funding round.

24 November 2022

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NextGen Nordics 2023 agenda announced

NextGen Nordics will return on 25th April 2023 to Stockholm, Sweden and the timing of this event could not be better placed.

23 November 2022

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SMB banking startup Novo raises $35m

Novo, a digital-only bank for US small businesses, has topped up its Series B funding round with a $35 million investment from GGV Capital.

23 November 2022

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Anti-woke banking startup GloriFi shuts down

GloriFi, an "anti-woke" fintech startup backed by, among others, Peter Thiel, is shutting down weeks after launching its app after failing to secure funding.

22 November 2022

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UK Chancellor’s plan to turn UK into the ‘next Silicon Valley’

In last week’s Autumn Statement, Jeremy Hunt, chancellor of the exchequer, outlined a number of priorities which will likely impact UK fintech.

22 November 2022

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Motive Partners acquires embedded/capital to grow early-stage fintech portfolio

Private equity firm Motive Partners has acquired fintech VC embedded/capital, with the aim of creating a specialist fintech investment platform for startups.

22 November 2022

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Griffin moves banking-as-a-service sandbox out of beta

UK-based banking-as-a-service startup Griffin has launched a sandbox for fintechs to build prototypes and test applications on its platform.

22 November 2022

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Tap to Pay startup Dapio goes live in the UK

Dapio, a London-based pay-tech turning Android smartphones into card readers without extra hardware, has launched its Tap to Pay app for small businesses and sellers across the UK.

17 November 2022

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Estonian startup Mifundo wants to create a single market for bank loans across the EU

Mifundo, a fintech startup founded by the former CEO of Estonian digital bank Bigbank, has raised €1.2 million in pre-seed funding to build a platform that will enable people to apply for loans from banks across the European Union.

17 November 2022

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Former PayPal CEO Harris shuts down latest startup weeks after launch

Nirvana Money, a fintech startup founded by former PayPal and Intuit CEO Bill Harris, has shut down less than a month after its launch.

17 November 2022

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