BNP Paribas has set itself a target to have 1,000 more women working in IT professions by the end of 2024, through both internal and external recruitment.

Goldman Sachs is to hire 100 staff in Singapore, raising its headcount in the Southeast Asian financial hub to more than 1000.

Consumers in the US will be given the right to instruct their banks to transfer their financial data to other institutions, under new open banking rules devised by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Deutsche Börse has integrated social media monitoring services from Stockpulse into its market surveillance technology.

The Payments Association has warned that international criminals are making the most of innovations in cross-border payments to stash funds and evade detection when undertaking authorised push payment (APP) fraud.

BBVA in Mexico has launched a new mobile app developed by a multi-disciplinary team from offices in Spain, the US and Mexico, marking the first stage of a global roll out that unifies design, functionality and user experience across the group’s mobile banking franchise.

Japanese financial services conglomerate has announced plans to consolidate its various fintech divisions into a single unit.

Forward, a US-based startup offering payments as a product services for software companies, has raised a $16 million seed round.

Fintech infrastructure startup OatFi has raised $24 million in Series A funding to build a credit network for business-to-business payments.

Australian startup Acacia is emerging from stealth mode with the launch of it money management app that uses open banking and data analytics to give user insights into their financial and environmental arrangements.

The European Central Bank is commencing work to interlink the Eurosystem’s Target Instant Payment Settlement (Tips) with India’s Unified Payment Interface and other real-time payment rails across Asia.

Standard Charted has appointed former Monetary Authority of Singapore executive David Hardoon as global head of artificial intelligence enablement.

Financial regulators have often called out the environmental impact of cryptocurrencies and now a new study from Forex Suggest reveals 431.6 million trees would need to be planted to offset bitcoin’s pollution over the last year.

The European Commission has opened access to EU supercomputers to bolster AI development and push AI initiatives.

As Canada works towards the creation of an open banking framework, a new survey suggests that boosting awareness needs to be top of the agenda for a public largely oblivious to the concept.