Nordic fintech Lunar has selected Thought Machine – the same cloud native core banking technology used by JP Morgan – to modernise its core systems and develop new services across the region.

On day two of COP26’s ‘World Leader’s Summit’, Finextra attended European finance consultancy Oxera’s ‘Economics of Climate Change’ session, which brought to life the role that both investors and greentech startups can play in delivering decarbonisation.

Berlin-based fintech pliant has unveiled a corporate credit card that promises to ensure fully carbon neutral travel.

Monzo is to migrate its investment and pension product portfolio to Octopus-owned embedded investment platform Seccl.

How are different financial institutions approaching climate strategy and sustainable investment? The potential for sustainable investment was explored in the keynote presentation: How can nature be made bankable? by founder of ResponsibleRisk Richard Peers and CEO of sustainable investment company Mirova, Philippe Zaouati.

Bank of America’s artificial intelligence push has led to a 94% increase in AI and machine learning granted and pending patent applications since 2022.

In a panel discussing tokenisation, panellists Suzana Kordumova, product manager at Netcetera, Stephan Hackenberg solution sales director at Giesecke+Devrient, Matteo Gamba, head of product – global payments and fraud at Wayfair, and John Noltensmeyer CISO at Tokenex spoke on network tokenisation and what tokenisation can do for merchant payments.

Unicredit has made a follow-on investment of €10 million in Berlin-based lending-as-a-service fintech Banxware.

Wealthtech entrepreneur John Wise and PE firm Stellex Capital Management have acquired S&P Global’s Fincentric business with a view to providing digital experiences and financial data distribution to the wealth, broking and asset management industries.

Nyse parent Intercontinental Exchange is exploring how it can use Circle’s stablecoin and tokenised money market offering.

Millions of Chase customers will soon be able to directly link their accounts to Coinbase wallets, making it easier than ever for huge swathes of Americans to buy crypto.

According to a new US Faster Payments Council (FPC) report, more work is needed to ensure most faster payments products are financially inclusive.

Japanese bank Mizuho has made Microsoft’s OpenAI platform available to its 45,000 workers.

B2B assets platform Zumo has released a report from Davos on the industry’s readiness for the EU’s upcoming Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, focusing on sustainability requirements.

Finextra is at Davos this year, covering global insights into the impact fintech has on wider issues such as responding to Covid-19, restoring economic growth and advancing a new social contract.