US-based smart contract auditing startup Quantstamp is setting up shop in Japan following a “significant” investment from Nomura and Digital Garage.

InvestCloud has unveiled a digital platform for wealth management and turnkey asset management programs (Tamps).

Pipe Technologies has raised $60 million in equity and asset financing to support the growth of its SaaS financing platform.

Subsidiaries of Charles Schwab have agreed to pay $187 million to settle SEC charges that they misled clients about fees for the broker’s robo-advisor product.

Deutsche Bank has hired two senior executives from SAP to help guide its global technology and innovation strategy.

Confirmation of Payee (COP) has a key role in the instant payments infrastructure as a service that verifies account names prior to making a payment, the scheme ensures that funds are being transferred to the correct account.

NatWest has created a free to use digital Carbon Planner tool designed to help UK businesses lower energy bills as they cut their carbon footprint.

In conversation with Richard Peers for Finextra TV, Tonia Plakhotniuk, associate director, policy (sustainable finance & financial reporting) at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) traverses a number of predications we can expect to see around sustainable finance in 2021.

Lloyds’ Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey finds that UK financial firms are doubling down on AI as producivity surges.

A five-person team from Malaysia has walked away with a $100,000 prize after emerging victorious in the grand finale of MasterCard’s globe-trotting Masters of Code hackathon.

A US judge has granted a preliminary injunction that temporarily blocks enforcement of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s open banking rule.

The cloud propels financial institutions (FIs) forward and provides the opportunity to scale in line with market demands such as volatility in the capital markets space, new regulations in banking and payments or increasing data assets in the insurance industry.

Finextra sat down with chief technology officer at EQ Bank, Dan Broten, at the Temenos Community Forum in Vienna this May, to explore how the cloud can be leveraged to accomplish ESG goals.

After securing its first payment-for-data deal with Plaid in September, JPMorgan has now updated contracts with fintech firms that make up more than 95% of data pulls on its systems.

Lond-based LHV Bank has signed a deal with OpenAI to licence ChatGPT Enterprise, providing unlimited access to the GenAI toolset for all of its employees.