Consumers are increasingly looking to banks, insurers and other financial providers to help them make more ethical and environmentally conscious decisions around their finances, new research finds.

Commissioned by CRIF, Europe’s leading provider of consumer and credit information, and published ahead of November’s COP29 meeting of world leaders, the research finds European and US consumers are making increasingly climate conscious decisions in their lives.

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Juni, a fast-growing Swedish financial platform on a mission to build the global business bank of the future, has further strengthened its partnership with Salt Edge, a leading open banking solutions provider, to deliver open banking capabilities. 

Ebury, a global fintech that empowers businesses to trade and grow internationally, today announces the appointment of Klaus Hoffmann as Country Manager for Germany. Klaus will work closely with Ebury’s leadership and local team to support the business’ continued growth and expansion in Germany.

Over more than three decades, Klaus has served in a variety of senior leadership and non-executive director roles at many financial institutions within the FX vertical.

Tuum, a leading next-generation core banking provider, today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to enhance the scalability, security, and performance of digital banking services across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). This collaboration is set to empower financial institutions with rapid deployment capabilities, seamless integration, and cost-efficient operations, setting a new standard in the fintech industry. 

Tide, the UK’s leading business financial platform, has today announced it has acquired Onfolk, a UK SME payroll solution, with integrations for accounting, pensions and people systems. The move strengthens Tide’s admin proposition for small businesses. More than one in 10 (c.11%) small businesses in the UK now use the Tide app. After the acquisition, Onfolk will be integrated into the Tide app and become Tide Payroll. 

Temenos today launched a SaaS enterprise service for cross-border payments, empowering Payment Service Providers (PSPs), including banks, electronic money institutions (EMIs) and fintechs, to swiftly launch and lower the cost of cross border payment services.

HSBC have launched a new cross border e-commerce payment solution for banks worldwide, enabling their merchant business customers trading on e-commerce sites to seamlessly receive EUR and GBP payments via their local bank account.

Prior to HSBC’s introduction of this virtual account solution, businesses in certain jurisdictions were only able to access EUR and GBP funds using cross-border payments at greater cost to e-marketplace platforms and merchants, due to additional fees and FX rates.