BBVA is moving its complex investment banking operations to Amazon Web Services.

Public servants in the UK are largely unfamiliar with blockchain technology and see little use for it in the current financial system, suggests a recently published survey.

In the week that the Australian Federal Government committed $288 million to advance digital ID and tackle identity theft, CommBank’s venture scaler unit x15Ventures has developed Truyu, an app that alerts users when there credentials are at risk of being misused by fraudsters.

The Bank of England is to start a series of conversations with businesses on the likely impact of a digital pound.

Deutsche Bank has opened a developer portal to enable third party coders to run the bank’s APIs and create new financial applications.

According to the UNFCCC High-Level Climate Champions and the Marrakech Partnership Climate Action Pathways report published at the end of 2020, certain notable breakthroughs are moving key sectors closer to the 2050 zero emissions goal, in an attempt to avert the impact of climate change.

A group of financial firms, including Bank of America, Circle and the DTCC, have used the Canton Network blockchain platform to complete the first full on-chain financing of US Treasuries (UST) against the USDC stablecoin.

Westpac has built a new cloud-based platform with Microsoft which draws on data sources from across the bank to provide real-time, personalised services to customers.

Shares in Wells Fargo fell on Thursday after the bank inked a formal agreement with the Office of the Comptroller pledging to fix deficiencies in its financial crimes risk management practices and anti-money laundering internal controls.

PayPal Ventures and Coinbase Ventures have invested in Mesh, bringing the crypto payments network’s total funding to more than $130 million.

London Stock Exchange Group is unifying its global finance operations on Oracle Cloud, replacing a host of legacy systems with the vendor’s applications.

In the keynote and Q&A session, ‘What is the role of AI in sustainable finance as we consider the role of satellite based geospatial data in city design?’, speaker Donna Lyndsay, strategic market lead environment and sustainability at Ordnance Survey, explored the use of data analytics and geospatial technology in green urban planning.

Romanian digital bank Salt has gone live on Starling’s SaaS platform Engine, onboarding 100,000 customers in its first two weeks.

Norwegian business-to-business payments firm Two has raised €18 million in a Series A fundng round led by Shine Capital and Antler.

BNY Mellon has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft to offer its buy and sell side clients a cloud-based data and analytics platform.