Klarna is using data sourced from Clarity AI to promote environmentally conscious brands to its global network of more than 150 million active shoppers.

HSBC is to allocate $100 million to funding green technology projects as part of the Breakthrough Energy Catalyst network.

Bticoin prices have surged past the $100,000 mark for the first time as retail and institutional investors look to cash in on a Trump-driven market rally.

UK politicians have rounded on the nation’s banks over an “unacceptable” level of IT crashes and outages, calling on regulators to take action to improve operational resilience across the sector and to consider the implementation of new rules on cloud service providers.

The Bank of England has been castigated for losing hundreds of laptops and phones amid an escalating cyber threat.

Globacap, a technology firm working to digitise and automate the world’s $12 trillion private capital markets, has raised $21 million in Series B funding.

Europe’s biggest bank HSBC is planning to invest between $15-$17bn in new technology as part of a new growth strategy announced by its chief executive John Flint.

In his FinextraTV predictions interview for 2021, David Harris, group head of sustainable business at London Stock Exchange Group, speaks to how the year is likely to see sizeable progress around sustainability.

ING is setting up an ‘analytics academy’ where any member of the Dutch bank’s staff can brush up on their data skills.

Recently departed Monzo CEO TS Anil was reportedly pushed out by the challenger bank’s board of directors over disagreements about IPO timelines.

CommBank has entered a five-year deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to continue as the bank’s preferred cloud provider.

The prevalence of shadow AI, whereby bank staff are using unapproved tech, poses a growing risk to the financial services industry, suggests recently published research.

Llloyds Banking Group has reacted to the growing pressure on banks to build safeguards around their deployment of artifical intelligence tools by appointing Magdalena Lis as head of ‘responsible’ AI.

Open Banking platform Tink has appointed the former financial services lead for Amazon Web Services, Rowan Taylor, as chief revenue officer.

At Sibos 2022 in Amsterdam, we spoke to Adrian Whelan, global head of regulatory intelligence, Brown Brothers Harriman, ahead of his panel session, ‘Green, clean, and ESG: Rewiring capital markets for a new generation of responsible investors.’