Bank of Ireland is to hire 100 new technology staff in roles across across engineering, cloud technology, cybersecurity and data.

Pride month is coming to a close, with the main celebrations continuing into this weekend in London. Pride is about much more than parades, parties, and rainbows. It is about the practical process of acceptance and inclusion of LGBTQIA+ identities, even in the fintech workplace.

Google is working with Wise, Ria Money Transfer and Xe to test a remittance experience via its online wallet and search.

Following a wave of defections from major banks, the Net Zero Banking Alliance is to pivot from a membership-based organisation to a ‘framework initiative’.

Stripe and crypto investment firm Paradigm have unveiled a blockchain project for stablecoin payments.

Experian has significantly expanded its Global Innovation Centre (GIC) in Hyderabad, doubling its office space.

Responding to a call from the US Treasury, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the American Fintech Council (AFC) have both weighed in on the use of AI in financial services.

Bloomberg is making its B-Pipe real-time market data feed available to clients around the world through Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Castellum.AI, a financial crime compliance platform with in-house risk data, AML/KYC screening and AI agents, has closed an oversubscribed $8.5 million Series A round.

Research scientists at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) have reported the fastest quantum random number generator (QRNG) to date based on international benchmarks.

The sixth Sustainable Finance Live event will be taking place on 10th October 2023, at Events @ No 6 in London. The conference will bring together the brightest minds in the sustainable finance and fintech industries to discuss innovation and new strategies to approach sustainability in the sector.

With PSD2’s Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) deadline fast approaching, Swedish open banking platform Tink is claiming that European lenders have failed to provide the proper technology environment for third party providers to access payments data as required by the new law.

Research from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and the Ethereum Climate Platform (ECP) reveals that the Merge – the upgrade that switched the ETH consensus mechanism from a proof-of-work protocol to a proof-of-stake system – ensured that Ethereum now has a much lighter greenhouse gas footprint than other high carbon-emitting blockchains.

UBS is the latest banking giant to bring artificial intelligence into the C suite, tapping JP Morgan’s Daniele Magazzeni as its first chief AI officer.

Join us in London on 26 November to explore the current AI challenges, opportunities, and the future of AI in financial services.