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Sustainable Finance.Live 2025: Should we all become next generation accountants?

At Sustainable Finance Live 2025, moderator Andrew Watson, co-founder of Rethinking Capital opened the panel on sustainable accounting by highlighting the transition towards an economy fuelled by intangibles, and that 1997 was the last year in which technical accountants featured in conversations taking place at COP.

Toronto opens fintech cluster

Toronto is the latest city hoping to become a major fintech hub, opening a dedicated cluster designed to help connect established technology and banking leaders with startups.

Google Cloud blockchain to rival Stripe and Circle

Google Cloud’s head of Web3 strategy has been talking up the firm’s Universal Ledger Layer-1 blockchain as a “credibly neutral” infrastructure for financial services, contrasting it with rival options from Stripe and Circle.

Irish banks’ mobile payments plan hits roadblock

A payments app developed by Ireland’s high street banks to compete with digital banks has hit a snag after it was announced that the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) would launch an investigation.

Binance pays $4.3bn and CEO pleads guilty to settle US AML charges

Binance has agreed to pay $4.3 billion to settle a long-running investigation by the US Department of Justice, with the crypto exchange’s founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao also stepping down as CEO and pleading guilty to violating anti-money laundering requirements.

Biden opposes digital asset bill

President Biden and SEC chair Gary Gensler have both criticised a new cryptocurrency bill ahead of a US House of Representatives vote.

Warwick Business School opens fintech research centre

Warwick Business School has opened a research centre for financial technology backed by a £3 million donation from Clive Gillmore, an alumnus of Warwick University and CEO and Group CIO of Mondrian Investment Partners