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Sustainable Finance.Live 2025: Should we all become next generation accountants?

At Sustainable Finance Live 2025, moderator Andrew Watson, co-founder of Rethinking Capital opened the panel on sustainable accounting by highlighting the transition towards an economy fuelled by intangibles, and that 1997 was the last year in which technical accountants featured in conversations taking place at COP.

05 November 2025

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Starling signs largest Engine deal with Canada's Tangerine Bank

Starling Bank has signed a ten-year deal to implement its core banking software, Engine, at Canada's Tangerine Bank, a digital offshoot of the Bank of Nova Scotia.

05 November 2025

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UK mobile networks to block spoofed numbers in crackdown on impersonation scams

Top mobile networks including BT EE, VodafoneThree and Virgin Media 02, are to introduce a raft of new measures to protect consumers from fraud, under a new Telecoms Charter agreed with the UK government.

05 November 2025

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Sustainable Finance.Live 2025: The anatomy of a value chain

In this year’s showcase, panellists explored the life cycle of a large infrastructure project planning process by highlighting the key stages of the value chain.

04 November 2025

/crime

EU foils €600m crypto scam

European authorities have arrested nine people in connection with a cryptocurrency money laundering network that defrauded victims of more than €600m

04 November 2025

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Sustainable Finance.Live 2025: ClearBank delivers the impossible

Charles McManus, co-founder and board director of ClearBank, delivered the keynote ‘Delivering the Impossible – A Case Study’, which recounted the inception and journey of ClearBank, and explored new possibilities for modern open banking infrastructure.

04 November 2025

/crypto

Blockchain to 'eventually' power all transactions - StanChart CEO

Bill Winters, the chief executive of UK bank Standard Chartered, has stated that nearly all transactions will be settled on the blockchain, eventually.

04 November 2025

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Sustainable Finance Live.2025: Blended finance and repeatability as keys to nature investment

Acknowledging the understanding that, for sustainable finance, there are a lot of opportunities but equally a lot of money and investment needed, a panel of experts at SF.live tackled how to reinvent the value of nature as an asset class.

04 November 2025

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Pine Labs eyes $400m target for upcoming IPO

Indian payments company Pine Labs is reportedly seeking to raise more than $430m from its upcoming IPO in Mumbai.

04 November 2025

/ai

AI fintech Optasia lists in South Africa

UAE-based Optasia, a AI-powered fintech, has listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in one of the country's biggest IPOs in recent years.

04 November 2025

/crypto

Ripple acquires UK digital asset and wallet company Palisade

Ripple is further bolstering its crypto custody capabilities with the acquisition of UK digital asset wallet and custody company, Palisade.

04 November 2025

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Sustainable Finance.Live 2025 kicks off

Kicking off Sustainable Finance.Live 2025 in London, event host and founder of ResponsibleRisk, Richard Peers, outlined the objectives of the event this year and the theme of resilient infrastructure.

04 November 2025