On July 15, the 2022 China UK Green Finance Development Forum, jointly hosted by the International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF) of the Central University of Finance and Economics and the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI), was successfully held online.

Europe’s leading provider of credit information, CRIF, has expanded its open banking-powered consumer credit solution to the UK, helping more people access affordable, responsible credit during the current economic climate.

SambaNova Systems, the company delivering the industry’s only comprehensive software, hardware, and solutions platform to run AI and Deep Learning applications, today announced the results of its global research on AI adoption within enterprise organizations. It found that business leaders are increasingly deploying AI and progress could be further accelerated by moving beyond a fragmented proliferation of small models.

Pidgin, a secure real-time payments platform built for the future of payments, has been selected to demo at FinovateFall this year, which takes place September 12-14 in New York City.

Mastercard today announced Ellen Jackowski will join the company as Chief Sustainability Officer starting July 25, 2022. In this role, she will be instrumental in further integrating Mastercard’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy into the organization.

Al Sanam Islamic bank, a newly-established Islamic bank in Iraq, has selected ICS BANKS Islamic Banking software solution from ICS Financial Systems (ICSFS), the global software and services provider for banks and financial institutions.

London-based social and community-based investing app Shares is eying European expansion and a move into crypto after raising $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Valar Ventures.

The round, which brings Shares' total funding to $90 million in a little over a year, comes two months after the app launched in the UK.

Revolut has been struck by the exit of several key executives, including its UK regulatory and risk bosses, amid uneasy relations with the UK regulator as the neobank looks to speed up a decision on its UK banking licence.

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Uzbekistan is the point of development of the Central Asian region, today one of the most dynamically developing countries, and more open both for international cooperation and new investments, for innovative technologies.