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Pockit to buy Monese

Pockit, a UK fintech that provides financial services to low-income and underserved customers, has agreed terms to acquire struggling mobile banking outfit Monese.

8 hours

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MoneyGram says hackers stole customer data

MoneyGram has confirmed that the cyberattack that knocked out its service for several days last month saw crooks steal customer data, including bank account numbers.

8 hours

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Sustainable Finance Live: The role of data for Nature Capital

In the last panel of the day, moderated by Richard Peers, founder of ResponsibleRisk, the discussion centred around the role of data in nature intelligence and financial services.

13 hours

/ai

NextGen: AI: AI adoption is thriving in the financial sector

According to Lloyds, two out of three financial institutions are already investing in AI. Discover why at Finextra’s inaugural NextGen: AI event this November.

18 hours

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Sustainable Finance Live: Making nature worth investing in

The Sustainable Finance live section session of the day entitled 'Showcase of the Art of the Possible' aimed at showing potential journey of discovering natural capital to making it tradable.

22 hours

/payments

Worldline moves into embedded payments market

Worldline is moving into embedded payments via a partnership with Online Payment Platform (OPP), a provider of payment technology for platforms and marketplaces.

23 hours

/crypto

Crypto.com sues SEC after receiving Wells notice

Crypto.com has filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission after receiving a Wells notice from the regulator warning that enforcement action may be on the way.

09 October 2024

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Mastercard targets real-time card payments in South Africa

South Africa is set to become the first country to benefit from Mastercard's push to introduce real-time card payments.

09 October 2024

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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

/crypto

FTX gets green light to repay billions to customers

Customers of failed crypto exchange FTX will receive up to $16.5 billion under a bankruptcy plan approved by a US judge.

08 October 2024

/wealth

Archax and Assetera partner to offer tokenised real-world assets

Digital securities distribution platform Assetera and digital securities exchange Archax have joined forces to offer investors access to tokenised real-world assets - including money-market funds from abrdn - in Europe.

08 October 2024

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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.

08 October 2024