According to a new US Faster Payments Council (FPC) report, more work is needed to ensure most faster payments products are financially inclusive.

Japanese bank Mizuho has made Microsoft’s OpenAI platform available to its 45,000 workers.

B2B assets platform Zumo has released a report from Davos on the industry’s readiness for the EU’s upcoming Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, focusing on sustainability requirements.

Finextra is at Davos this year, covering global insights into the impact fintech has on wider issues such as responding to Covid-19, restoring economic growth and advancing a new social contract.

The UK government has launched a new body for training prospective coders in order to address an increasing digital skills gap.

Finextra will be hosting its fifth annual Sustainable Finance Live conference to take place on November 29th. The event will be hosted both online and in-person at Events @ No 6 in Aldgate, London.

DNB and Danske Bank have invested EUR5.2 million in Nordic API Gateway, a data sharing utility launched by account aggregation and budgeting app Spiir.

EBA Clearing has recruited nine banks from six countries to undertake data model training for a new fraud fighting feature for account-to-account and instant payments.

Mizuho Bank has begun proof-of-concept trials of Digital ID based on device location and facial recognition to improve online banking authentication and ongoing customer due diligence.