How are different financial institutions approaching climate strategy and sustainable investment? The potential for sustainable investment was explored in the keynote presentation: How can nature be made bankable? by founder of ResponsibleRisk Richard Peers and CEO of sustainable investment company Mirova, Philippe Zaouati.

Bank of America’s artificial intelligence push has led to a 94% increase in AI and machine learning granted and pending patent applications since 2022.

In a panel discussing tokenisation, panellists Suzana Kordumova, product manager at Netcetera, Stephan Hackenberg solution sales director at Giesecke+Devrient, Matteo Gamba, head of product – global payments and fraud at Wayfair, and John Noltensmeyer CISO at Tokenex spoke on network tokenisation and what tokenisation can do for merchant payments.

Unicredit has made a follow-on investment of €10 million in Berlin-based lending-as-a-service fintech Banxware.

Wealthtech entrepreneur John Wise and PE firm Stellex Capital Management have acquired S&P Global’s Fincentric business with a view to providing digital experiences and financial data distribution to the wealth, broking and asset management industries.

Nyse parent Intercontinental Exchange is exploring how it can use Circle’s stablecoin and tokenised money market offering.

Millions of Chase customers will soon be able to directly link their accounts to Coinbase wallets, making it easier than ever for huge swathes of Americans to buy crypto.

According to a new US Faster Payments Council (FPC) report, more work is needed to ensure most faster payments products are financially inclusive.

Japanese bank Mizuho has made Microsoft’s OpenAI platform available to its 45,000 workers.

B2B assets platform Zumo has released a report from Davos on the industry’s readiness for the EU’s upcoming Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, focusing on sustainability requirements.

Finextra is at Davos this year, covering global insights into the impact fintech has on wider issues such as responding to Covid-19, restoring economic growth and advancing a new social contract.

The UK government has launched a new body for training prospective coders in order to address an increasing digital skills gap.

Finextra will be hosting its fifth annual Sustainable Finance Live conference to take place on November 29th. The event will be hosted both online and in-person at Events @ No 6 in Aldgate, London.

DNB and Danske Bank have invested EUR5.2 million in Nordic API Gateway, a data sharing utility launched by account aggregation and budgeting app Spiir.

EBA Clearing has recruited nine banks from six countries to undertake data model training for a new fraud fighting feature for account-to-account and instant payments.