The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) annual conference featured a session Monday called 'Dare to be Different'. During the hour-long programme, a panel featuring diversity, equity, and inclusion experts from Goldman Sachs, Loop Capital, and Dropbox emphasised the financial and organisational advantages of increasing access and career advancement opportunities for women and minorities.
Klarna Kosma, the open banking arm of BNPL giant Klarna, has helped Swedish SMEs receive on average 15% larger loan offers, at a 4% lower interest rate, through a tie-up with Swedish digital lending platform Krea.
In a bid to clamp down on greenwashing, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing a package of new measures including investment product sustainability labels and restrictions on how terms like ‘ESG', ‘green' or ‘sustainable' can be used.
BMLL, a provider of historical Level 3 data and analytics across global equity and futures markets, has secured a $26 million Series B investment round led by Nasdaq Ventures, FactSet and IQ Capital.
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is launching a study on the potential competition benefits and harms from Big Tech firms' entry into a range of retail financial services sectors.
Nordic payments operator Nets and Softpay equipped all 7-Eleven stores across Denmark with emergency tap-to-pay SoftPOS kit the day after the chain's payments and checkout terminals were knocked out by a cyberattack.
