Stripe has opened an App Marketplace housing up to 50 third party business apps from vendors like like DocuSign, Dropbox, Intercom, Mailchimp, Ramp, and Xero.

Trading app Robinhood has agreed a $300 million cash and stock deal to buy custodial and portfolio management platform TradePMR.

Africa-based startup Tehanu has completed its first ‘interspecies money’ transfer, which enables the transfer of funds through digital wallets associated with the conservation of Rwandan mountain gorillas.

NatWest is to run an eight-week pilot of an app which calculates customer carbon emissions as they spend.

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.

A lot has changed since the fintech boom of the 2010s and the subsequent genesis of innovation, new business models, new user experiences and the formation of new companies. Richard Peers, founder of Responsible Risk and contributing editor at Finextra Research speaks to Aaron McCreary, climate fintech lead at New Energy Nexus about how a similar wave will sweep through the sustainable finance space in 2021.

For a while now, the financial services industry has understood its role within climate intervention. As a result, companies across the world in the financial sector have looked to become funders and to develop their ESG regulations, quickly and immediately. Yet in the speed to be compliant and sustainable, ethics can become lost from the conversation.

Goldman Sachs has teamed up with American Express to deploy a cloud-based payment service for large corporate clients.

The value of ecommerce fraud is set to rise threefold in the next five years, thanks to the impact of AI.