A cluster of ESG driven minds are honing a risk-weighting methodology for banks to implement across climate-exposed assets.

UK digital bank Monzo has rolled out a tool that lets sole traders and landlords file taxes directly to HMRC from their business account.

Matera, a Brazilian fintech that has become a significant part of the country’s Pix instant payments ecosystem, is targeting North America after securing $100 million in investment from Warburg Pincus.

European capital market participants are calling on supervisory authorities to remove regulatory barriers to cloud adoption, arguing that broad-brush diktats on portability and multi-cloud strategies would present significant challenges to implementation by financial firms.

The ongoing effort to persuade the SEC to approve crypto investment products continues, following news that many of the country’s largest asset managers, BlackRock, WisdomTree and Invesco, have applied to the SEC for permission to launch a spot bitcoin ETF.

Kredete has raised $22 million to help African immigrants in North America and Europe build credit and send remittances via stablecoin payments.

Leading up to Sustainable Finance Live 2024, that will be taking place on 8 October at Events@No6 in London, Richard Peers, founder of ResponsibleRisk and keynote speaker at the event, conducted an interview with FinextraTV on the impact of biodiversity in the Nordics.

Apron, a UK startup that slashes the time small businesses spend processing invoices, has raised a $15 million Series A.

The Financial Conduct Authority is to encourage brokers to take up AI as part of wider reforms to the UK’s mortgage market.

ANZ has partnered with Grollo Carbon Ventures (GCV) to successfully trade Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), one of a batch of use cases for an Australian Central Bank Digital Currency.

By 2020, US business to business (B2B) payments are expected to reach $23.1 trillion according to Deloitte. This is driven by cloud technology, which is accelerating the digital transformation of the payments industry, providing customers with a myriad of convenient payment methods.

German stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse has bid $5.5bn to acquire investment funds platform Allfunds in a move that could have ramifications for Europe’s asset and wealth management market.

Stock trading app Robinhood continues to build out its product suite, adding wealth management and private banking services, as well as an AI investment tool.

Japan’s NEC has acquired Swiss core banking vendor Avaloq for CHF2.05 billion.

Danske Bank has released a detailed climate action plan setting goals for 2030 and 2050. The plan maps out the bank’s sustainable goals and carbon emissions, pulling focus to the green transition.