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Economic conditions, energy, cost of living rank highly in ethical risk factors for UK businesses

What is ethical risk? Ethical risk consists of the risks that could impede an organisation’s ability to live up to its ethical values and standards which impact consumer trust, reputation, and financial performance.

1 hour

/sustainable

Sustainable development goals take G20 TechSprint centre stage

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Banco Central do Brasil have put sustainable finance at the centre of the latest G20 TechSprint hackathon competition.

10 hours

/crypto

Visa develops dashboard to make sense of stablecoin activity

Visa has teamed up with blockchain data provider Allium Labs to build a dashboard that helps people make sense of stablecoin activity.

10 hours

/crypto

Stripe lets merchants accept stablecoins

After a six year hiatus, Stripe is returning to crypto, allowing merchants to accept stablecoins for online payments.

14 hours

/identity

NextGen Nordics 2024: Can behavioural biometrics fix fraud?

Moderating her second panel of the day - Fraud prevention and AML: the need for behavioural biometrics in this instant age - Finextra’s senior reporter Niamh Curran spoke to Megan Heald, senior project manager at NICE Actimize, John Sam-Kubam, senior vice president at Crown Agents Bank, Beju Shah, head of Nordic centre at the Bank of International Settlements, and Robert Woods, director international market planning and financial services SME at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions.

22 hours

/retail

Visa launches open banking with Tink in the US

Visa has launched open banking in the US, using technology from recently acquired Swedish vendor Tink.

23 hours

/devops

The Bank of London turns on GenAI coding assistant

The Bank of London is using a Generative AI assistant to speed up coding for companies testing embedded banking applications via the transaction bank's API suite.

25 April 2024

/markets

Deutsche Börse backs private market trading platform Forge for European launch

Forge, the operator of a marketplace for trading in private companies, has launched in Europe with the support of Deutsche Börse.

25 April 2024

/payments

Splitit enables banks to offer in-checkout instalment payments

Card-linked instalment payments platform Splitit has launched FI-PayLater for banks and card issuers.

25 April 2024

/wholesale

Emirates NBD carries out PoC for digitally native trade documents

Emirates NBD has teamed with a trade finance platform and two fintechs on a proof-of-concept for a transaction involving digitally native trade documents with the application of participants' digital identity.

25 April 2024

/security

Mastercard harnesses AI to take on scammers

Mastercard is tackling the growing threat of scams through the launch of an AI-based product suite and several cross-industry partnerships.

25 April 2024

/regulation

RBI bars Kotak Mahindra from digitally onboarding new customers

The Reserve Bank of India has ordered Kotak Mahindra Bank to stop onboarding new customers via digital channels and to pause issuing new credit cards because of failures with the lender's IT systems.

24 April 2024