The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has released eight recommendations to upgrading the nature data value chain for market participants.

Klarna has opened a new technology hub in Warsaw, reflecting the city’s growing reputation as a centre of technology innovation.

BBVA has teamed up with VC 500 Global to develop an “intelligence platform” that will help the bank identify new startups, technologies and trends.

Banking co-operative Swift is to provide a jumping board to large public cloud providers Microsoft and Google, and roll out its own private cloud services for institutions connecting to the network.

Foreign exchange infrastructure company OpenFX has emerged from stealth with $23 million in funding led by Accel.

Palla, a fintech that enables instant cross-border payments for global financial institutions and fintech firms, has raised $14.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Revolution Ventures.

Today, Finextra Research and Responsible Risk kicked off proceedings for Sustainable Finance Live – a series of virtual events designed to drive the creation of actionable ESGtech strategies within the financial services sector, and foster an ecosystem of partnerships that will turn strategy into action.

The Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has partnered with Finastra for its globally renowned fintech hackathon, Hack to the Future 4.

The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) has collaborated with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) to form a global Nature Data Public Facility (NDPF) that will facilitate financial institutions in capturing and collected nature-related data.

Lloyds has signed investment platform AJ Bell to its open banking-powered FundBy Bank technology.

After taking part in the F’in debate on transforming traditional banks to compete in the digital banking battlefield at Money 20/20 Europe 2019 in Amsterdam, Finextra spoke to Joris Hensen, co-lead API program at Deutsche Bank AG, about their developer portal, data aggregation and open banking.

JP Morgan has announced their partnership with Cleareye.ai to bring ClearTrade, a trade financing digitising solution, to banks. The platform will be integrated into JP Morgan’s Trade Processing System that has rolled out in the APAC region and will be launched globally in the coming months.

Austria’s Raiffeisenlandesbank aims to become the first traditional European bank to incorporate cryptocurrencies and other digital assets into its investment offering for clients.