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News/inclusion
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has completed a proof-of-concept into the use of digital credentials for international trade and CBDC-based cross-border payments.
31 July 2024
News/wholesale
Ripple is joining forces with SBI Group and HashKey DX to bring XRPL-powered supply chain finance to Japan.
30 April 2024
News/payments
Visa has teamed up with SAP-owned supply chain finance outfit Taulia to make embedded finance accessible to businesses worldwide.
13 March 2024
News/retail
Standard Chartered's innovation and investment arm SC Ventures is launching a B2B online marketplace offering small firms in Ghana access to financing options.
29 February 2024
Accel and Citi Ventures-backed fintech Xalts has acquired Contour Network from a consortium of global banks, with the aim of to building a 'Plaid for Trade' supply chain network.
20 February 2024
News/sustainable
Bursting on stage to lead the final panel session of the day, Anna-Marie Slot, global sustainability partner, Ashurst, outlined her hopes for a “rubber hits the road” panel. Getting straight to the crux of the matter, Slot asked the panel, how much money actually has to move to ensure impact?
11 October 2023
Lloyds Bank is enabling corporate customers to request digital Guarantees or Standby Letters of Credit under a new 'Paperless Guarantee' initiative.
09 October 2023
Treyd, a Swedish startup that provides upfront supplier payments for merchants, has topped up its Series A funding round with an additional $12 million.
12 September 2023
HSBC has invested $35 million in supply chain finance outfit Tradeshift as part of plans to create a new joint venture company focused on the development of embedded financial services.
01 August 2023
News/startups
Twinco Capital, a global supply chain finance outfit that covers the production cycle from purchase order to final invoice payment, has raised $12 million in an equity and debt round.
24 January 2023
Sustainable Finance Live kicked off Tuesday morning in a hybrid format, in-person and online, where leaders discussed the problem statements and solutions that are defining the sustainable finance industry today.
29 November 2022
Finextra spoke to Adam Webb, COO, Risk at ICBC Standard Bank, ahead of Sustainable Finance Live about his experience in risk management and mitigating climate risk.
25 November 2022
Registration for Sustainable Finance Live, Finextra's programme of content, workshops and experiments, designed to create actionable ESG strategies, is now open.
28 July 2022
US Bank has teamed up with trade-finance fintech LiquidX to help speed up and simplify supply-chain transactions between suppliers and buyers.
11 May 2022
Citi has led a $10 million funding round for Crowdz as part of a wider collaboration with the SME finance platform to develop SaaS receivables as an asset class.
26 April 2022
SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s fintech investment and ventures arm, has launched Trade and Supply Chain Connect (TASConnect), a bank agnostic supply chain finance platform based out of Singapore.
15 February 2022
News/crime
Discussing Q4 earnings with analysts, PayPal CFO John Rainey disclosed that 4.5 million accounts had been shut down after “bad actors” took advantage of incentives and rewards programmes, resulting in shares falling by 25%, according to Bloomberg.
03 February 2022
Commerzbank claims that international trade and supply chains have reached a technological inflection point, with emerging technologies in Big data, blockchain, Internet of Things and artifical intelligence set to overturn long-established practices.
Sustainable Finance Live is back for another virtual event. Finextra and Responsible Risk have come together for a thought-provoking series of experiential events, welcoming banking and technology ecosystems to collaborate on enabling a wave of change.
01 December 2021
On day two of COP26’s ‘World Leader’s Summit’, Finextra attended European finance consultancy Oxera’s ‘Economics of Climate Change’ session, which brought to life the role that both investors and greentech startups can play in delivering decarbonisation.
03 November 2021
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