Buy now, pay later giant Klarna is working towards cryptocurrency integration ahead of an anticipated IPO in April this year.

Dr Rich Stockdale, founder of Oxygen Conservation, gave the closing keynote of Sustainable Finance Live 2024, looking into how the investment into natural capital can evolve in the future.

Xavier Niel, French billionaire and chairman of the Iliad group, has announced his intention to host an AI conference in Paris in November, the same month as Britain’s AI Safety Summit.

Solar panel sourcing, installation and aftercare is to be made available through Halifax Bank as part of a new trial scheme.

Royal Bank of Canada has moved applications under development at its artificial intelligence research unit Borealis AI to a high-performance private cloud infrastructure with support from Red Hat and Nvidia.

ANZ is to establish a major tech hub in Brisbane as part of the bank’s plan to acquire Suncorp Bank.

Moderating the panel discussing the upcoming PSD3, PSR and IP regulations, Daniel Hellmann, director, risk advisory, payments at Deloitte spoke with Simone Del Guerra, head of central institutions & international sales at Nexi Group; Nuno Epifânio, policy officer – retail financial services at the European Commission; Kevin Flood, director – payments ecosystem strategy at FIS; and David Malley, payment industry engagement lead at NatWest.

UK digital lender Tandem is working with green fintech Cogo to help customers track and manage the carbon footprint of their spending.

Brazilian cloud-native core banking and payments platform Pismo has set its sights on international expansion after raising $108 million in a Series B fundraising round led by SoftBank, Amazon and Accel.

On April 20th the bitcoin halving will take place, which is set in the cryptocurrency’s technology to cut the rate at which bitcoin is created. The event happens every leap year and is eagerly anticipated by crypto enthusiasts.

UK-based asset and wealth management software vendor Zilo has raised £25 million in a Series A funding round joined by Citi.

Startup Money Squirrel has launched an open banking-powered app to help UK businesses master their cashflow management.

Banking cooperative Swift has published a new API standard for the pre-authorisation of funds in its latest bid to bring more efficiency to open banking in Europe.

The next afternoon panel was moderated by Debi Bell-Hosking, with speakers consisting of Dr Janet Bastiman, chief data scientist, Napier AI; Stuart McDowell, UK CIO, Societe Generale; and David Tracy, head of data products, Smart Data Foundry.

Royal Bank of Canada is using its own proprietary AI foundation model to improve credit adjudication capabilities and loyalty programme personalisation.