Bank of America Merrill Lynch found in 2018 that firms with a better ESG record than their peers produced higher three-year returns, were more likely to become high-quality stocks and less likely to have large price declines or go bankrupt.

However, study by NN Investment Partners1 showed that more than half of professional investors still think that incorporating ESG into their investment strategy will reduce their returns, with more than 70% thinking this in Italy and the Netherlands, along with 80% of German investors.

Burrow, part of the DPR group and provider of customer onboarding as a service technology, have announced their latest partnership with Saffron Building Society to launch a fully automated pre-application qualification solution for new mortgage customers.

The Burrow platform offers a slick user interface that enables lenders and intermediaries to pre-qualify customer mortgage enquiries with an easy to adopt ‘plug and play’ solution, without the need to integrate into core banking platforms, although a fully integrated option is also available.

Leading provider of self-invested pension products integrates Cashfac’s flagship solution to drive process automation and increase productivity

A leading provider of self-invested pension products (SIPPs) – has doubled customer growth of their business operations by integrating Cashfac’s flagship virtual accounts solution with its existing core systems.

Standard Chartered and leading payments solution provider, Assembly Payments, have set up a new joint venture to deliver next generation payment solutions for the USD 29 trillion global e-commerce industry.

The new company will be headquartered in Singapore with the intent to grow the business globally, and will offer a sophisticated digital payment platform to manage transactions across multiple payment types and countries, including online, mobile and point-of-sale, digital wallets, debit and credit cards and real-time payments.

2020 is a leap year — the one year in four when tradition says it is acceptable for women to propose to their partner on February 29.

Shopping service Klarna believes everyone should get what they love, and not have their decisions dictated by outdated rules or traditions. Launching today, Klarna and fashion activist and celebrity stylist Bea Åkerlund, have released a pair of limited-edition rings — the Knight Finger and Unification — empowering everyone to propose when and how they want. 

CLS, a market infrastructure delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, today announces that Actinver, BNP Paribas, Citibank and J.P. Morgan are live on CLSNet, a standardized, automated bilateral payment netting calculation service for over 120 currencies operating on a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform. 

 Colt Technology Services, a leading provider of agile, high bandwidth connectivity solutions and a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) today announced it will provide dedicated, private and on-demand access to Oracle Cloud through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect.

Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ:EPAY), a leading provider of financial technology that helps make business payments simple, smart and secure, today announced the release of the 2020 Treasury Fraud and Controls Survey in partnership with Strategic Treasurer. According to the survey results, 60 percent of companies now report experiencing fraud with a 50 percent increase in fraud over the past three years.