The West Yorkshire Pension Fund (WYPF) has bought a 25% stake in Rebalance Earth, a water-related nature restoration organisation.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is set to perform another U-turn, dropping an interpretive rule declaring that pay-in-four BNPL lenders should be treated in the same way as credit cards.

Emirates NBD is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) machine learning and data analytics technology to help build a “bank of the future”.

Nationwide Building Society is injecting £3 million in funding to encourage fintech startups and academics to develop Open Banking apps that can help to improve the lives of the one in four UK households who are financially squeezed – equivalent to 12.7 million people.

The round brings the application security platform and cybersecurity company’s total funding to $94 million. Led by DTCP with participation from Swisscom, IBM, Evolution Equity and Team 8, the capital will be used to strategically grow production innovation and global footprint.

Bryan Zhang, executive director and co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at The University of Cambridge Judge Business School presented research on the future of global fintech, conducted in conjunction with the World Economic Forum.

The gang that attacked ION Trading UK’s systems last week says that the firm has paid a ransom.