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The world is dependent on global finance working towards a fairer financial system for people, the environment and culture with a focus on sustainability, climate change and social justice. This July at The Fintech Times we are putting the spotlight on ethical finance/ethical banking, including environmentally and socially-conscious practices. More and more people are investigating…

Although open banking continues to mature across Europe, regional discrepancies could slow progress; according to Yapily’s annual European open banking league table. The data ranked the UK as the continent’s most mature open banking data, followed by Germany and Sweden. The open banking infrastructure’s league table measured local regulatory oversight and enforcement against API performance…

The world’s first open data marketplace has come into fruition with 10 participating platforms so far.  Created by the Australian fintech and data intermediary and recipient platform Adatree, the Adatree Exchange will shift how organisations are able to procure regulated consumer data right (CDR)-ready, third-party software capabilities. Co-founded by Jill Berry and Shane Doolan, former…

UK retail investors are standing their ground amid global market sell offs with more than nine in 10 (95 per cent) either holding onto their investments or ‘buying the dip’, according to the latest ‘Retail Investor Beat’, a quarterly survey of 10,000 retail investors across 14 countries, from social investment network, eToro. Of the 1,000…

The Fintech Times Bi-Weekly News Roundup. Funding and investment Insurance startup YuLife has raised $120million in a Series C funding round. It takes YuLife’s total funding to $206million. YuLife will use the capital to broaden its reach into new global markets as well as scale its product range and deliver financial products. Konsileo, the commercial…

According to global consulting firm Mercer, software engineers in Dubai with a minimum of three years in experience earn the third highest salaries in the world, when compared to other global technology hubs such as London, Amsterdam and Berlin – earning almost 30 per cent more. This difference in compensation indicates the high demand for…

Monoova, the Australian payments automation provider, has merged with foreign exchange organisation, Moneytech FX, to deliver a single platform that enables businesses to consolidate domestic and international payment processes and take advantage of faster cross-border transactions. The businesses merged under the Monoova brand will be ideally placed to fulfil their mission of automating and streamlining…