Morgan Stanley has rolled out a generative AI-powered assistant to support staff in surfacing and distilling insights from its extensive research library.

In today’s environment, data is produced and consumed at a rapid pace. However, the way it is currently being stored, accessed, and processed is inefficient.

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.

Australian Securities Exchange has selected Google Cloud as its preferred cloud partner with the aim of spurring product innovation in analytics and data.

In June 2023, The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges alleging that the crypto asset trading platform committed a variety of securities law violations.

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.

Manhattan’s district attorney has written to the firms behind Venmo, Zelle and the Cash App, calling on them to up their security measures in the face of growing fraud.

Bulgarian embedded finance provider Paynetics is making an ESG play through the acquisition of UK ‘impact neobank Novus. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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.

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.

Innovate Finance has convened the CEOs and founders of the UK’s largest fintech businesses to create a ‘Unicorn Council’ to lobby gobernment on behalf of the industtry.

Barclays has teamed up with the University of Lincoln to open a lab housing cutting-edge agricultural technology that will support entrepreneurs and researchers looking to boost the UK’s farming sector.

Project Promissa, a collaboration between the Bank for International Settlements’ Innovation Hub, the Swiss National Bank, and the World Bank, has demonstrated that paper-based promissory notes can be redesigned using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to address operational challenges that make the process time-consuming and cumbersome.

The United States and United Kingdom have imposed sanctions on seven members of the Russian hacking collective Trickbot.

In an industry where legacy systems often linger far beyond their shelf life, Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) is charting a different course, one that prioritises precision, agility, and strategic clarity.