July 2025 – Page 11 – FintechDaily

Trump Set to Sign Genius Act, Regulating Stablecoins into Law

This week, the US House of Representatives passed the Clarity Act and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act. Congress defines the Genius Act, also known as...

Visa and Mastercard Hit with New Class Action Lawsuit in the UK Over Card Fees

Visa and Mastercard are facing a multi-billion pound class action lawsuit in the UK over alleged unlawful interchange fees. The claim, to be filed soon...

Integrating ESG into Capital Allocation and Investment Strategy: A Smart Investment Approach

With 2020 witnessing significant global events—including wildfires, the COVID-19 pandemic, the intensified Black Lives Matter movement, and the crisis in Yemen—the landscape of sustainable investing...

Coinbase Enters the Super App Arena

Crypto platform Coinbase has rebranded its Wallet app as Base, consolidating payments, trading, chat, and social features into a single, blockchain-based 'superapp'. Running on Coinbase's...

Deutsche Bank Spinoff IMP+ACT Alliance Unveils Digital Tool for ESG Fund Transparency

IMP+ACT Alliance Unveils Groundbreaking IMP+ACT Classification System (ICS) The IMP+ACT Alliance has officially launched the IMP+ACT Classification System (ICS), a significant advancement aimed at enabling...

Barclays Accelerates Impact Investing via Digital Marketplace

In the aftermath of Finextra Research’s SustainableFinanceLive event, Richard Peers from ResponsibleRisk engaged in a discussion with Damian Payiatakis, head of impact investing at Barclays,...

Enhancing AI, DLT, and IoT Maturity to Drive Sustainable Finance Data

The executive director of the Green Digital Finance Alliance—a collaboration between Ant Financial and the UN Environment Programme—recently discussed with Finextra Research the challenges and...

UNICEF Embraces Cryptocurrency in the Battle Against COVID-19

UNICEF is significantly ramping up its engagement with cryptocurrency as part of its efforts to meet donor expectations and enhance support for organizations globally tackling...

ABN Amro Envisions the Future of Triple-A Banking with Climate-Safe Lending Network

A consortium of financial services firms has outlined their vision for a bank operating in a zero-carbon world, coining the term "triple-A bank of the...

No Easy Access to Unified Data

Bruno Bertocci, the head of sustainable equities at UBS Wealth Management, argues that the quest for standardized ESG data may be misguided. He likens ESG...