According to research from the Green Finance Institute, damage to the natural environment could cause a 12% loss to UK GDP in the future.

EBAday, the annual event for payments and transaction banking executives, will return on 20th to 21st June 2023 at The IFEMA in Madrid, Spain.

Persona, the verified identify platform used by a host of fintechs, has raised $200 million at a $2 billion valuation.

Kenyan startup Zanifu has raised $11.2 million in debt-equity funding for its platform providing micro, small and medium-sized businesses with inventory financing.

The Bank of England and the BIS Innovation Hub have developed a system that gives supervisors near real time data about stablecoins’ liabilities and their reserve assets.

Amplify, a fintech startup that makes donations to user-defined climate causes as a reward for buying from a network of sustainable brands, has launched in Ireland and the UK.

Mastercard has launched ‘Mastercard for Fintechs’, a dedicated programme for startups in Western Europe, offering access to technology support and educational tools alongside a series of fintech events with the opportunity to compete for the chance to win €50,000.

Swedish VC Kinnevek has written off its investment in Monese, adding to the financial woes of the mobile money transfer startup.

A collection of credit rating agencies, audit networks, index providers and stock exchanges have launched the Net Zero Service Providers Alliance (NZFSPA) that will commit them to tough greenhouse gas emission targets.

Finextra is heading back to Stockholm to delve into the most important topics in the Nordic banking world at our NextGen Nordics 2024 conference on the 23rd of April.

Former TSB and Virgin Money boss Paul Pester has taken on the role of chair at Firenze, a Manchester-based embedded finance startup that helps wealth managers offers customers loans secured against their investment pots.

Discussing the rise of sustainable fintechs and demand for greener financial services, founder and CEO of Embedded Sustainability provider ekko, Oli Cook, speaks to how the payments industry has a role to play in sustainable decision making.

Experian’s 12th annual Data Breach Industry Forecast includes five 2025 predictions for 2025 that show that global data breaches show no signs of slowing down.

Digital asset infrastructure firm Taurus has fully integrated with fellow Swiss vendor Temenos, enabling banks to create and manage crypto wallets as well as transfer a wide range of digital assets directly from within their installed core banking software.