French President Emmanuel Macron has launched the Children Online Protection Laboratory to protect children from potential online threats and cyberbullying by monitoring harmful content.

Berlin-based brokerage-as-a-service platform lemon.markets has gone live in cooperation with Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, and Tradegate.

Goldman Sachs has struck a deal to buy ClearFactr, a New York-based startup behind spreadsheet software for creating, analysing and sharing financial models. Financial terms of the deal are not known.

The billionaire CEO of payments processor Checkout.com Guillaume Pousaz has switched his country of residence from the UK to tax haven Monaco.

Alpian, a digital-first private bank aimed at Switzerland’s mass affluent market, has selected Temenos to provide its core technology stack on a pay-per-play basis.

The FCA is launching an AI Lab to work alongside banks, tech firms, academia and consumer groups to explore how AI can be safely and effectively integrated into financial services

As Finextra’s annual Sustainable Finance Live conference draws nearer, we spoke to several attendees that are set to speak at the event to take place at Events@No6 in London on 10th October 2023. Richard Conway, CEO of ElastaCloud, shares his views on relevant topics swirling around the sustainable finance sector and gives attendees an insight into his session.

The breadth and complexity of Open Banking systems involve a web of players interconnected by the core need to access data. Used as the tool by which financial institutions and third parties deliver innovative financial products, the data required is highly personal by nature and brings with it a myriad of challenges on the part of institutions trying to capitalise its on value without taking on too much risk.

As it rolls out a cloud-based in-house-built technology platform in the US, Spanish banking giant Santander is already planning to introduce the system around the world.

Serial fintech entrepreneur John Wise has been appointed chair of sustainability and data technology startup ESG Book.

Atom Bank has officially opened its new headquarters in Newcastle with the promise of adding 30 employees to its 600-strong workforce.

In one of the closing sessions of EBAday 2024 in Lisbon, panellists Marc Corbalan, VP of RTP analytics at Visa; Erwin Kulk, head of service development and management at EBA Clearing; Simone Löfgen, global head of payment platforms and managing director at Commerzbank; and Kannan Rasappan, founder and CEO of Banfico, explored innovations in cybersecurity in a panel titled ‘New approaches to fraud management’.

Visa is in talks with Featurespace about a £700 million acquisition of the British financial fraud fighting outfit, according to Sky News.

As the internet has developed, many of us have become reliant on a varying amount of passwords but our dependence on passwords has given way to just as many security risks. As such, the industry is beginning to turn to passkeys as a new promise of security and ease.