Payments & Transactions
30 January 2025
New Centre of Excellence for digital trust launched by Scottish industry leaders and academic experts
Leading experts in technology and finance have joined together to launch a new Scottish Centre of Excellence for digital trust ...
Regulation
29 January 2025
Navigating Regulatory Risk Trends in 2025: Key Insights from Pinsent Masons
As we step into 2025, the financial services landscape faces a year of transformation, with regulators aiming to balance economic ...
Regulation
29 January 2025
Systems in the Making: the Role of Companies in Implementing Sustainability Policy and Reporting
This paper focuses on the implementation of corporate sustainability, or Environment, Social and Governance, reporting. The introduction from 2023 of ...
Regulation
28 January 2025
Consumer Duty and Beyond
Season 5, episode 2 Listen to the full episode here. In this episode, we explore the complex challenges and opportunities ...
Regulation
23 January 2025
Tackling Messaging Fraud
Season 5, episode 1 Listen to the full episode here. Join us for the second episode of the FinTech Scotland ...
Regulation
23 January 2025
15 firms selected to tackle financial crime
We’re thrilled to announce the 15 innovative firms selected to progress to the next stage of our Innovation Call on ...
Announcement
20 January 2025
Funding Boost for Smart Data Foundry
Edinburgh-based Smart Data Foundry (SDF) secures £3 million in funding to launch a new Financial Data Service. This initiative, funded ...
Fintech firms
16 January 2025
Discover Nethermind as they join the FinTech Scotland Community
Nethermind, a fintech that specialises in blockchain research and engineering company, just joined the FinTech Scotland community. This contributes to Nethermind’s ...
Fintech firms
16 January 2025
Theo Paphitis Impressed by Scottish fintech GiftRound.
Scottish fintech GiftRound, has just received a significant boost from famous entrepreneur and small business champion, Theo Paphitis. This endorsement comes ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Promoting Fairness and Exploring Algorithmic Discrimination in Financial Decision Making Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence
In this white paper a comprehensive toolbox is developed, grounded in an ethical “rights toexplanation” framework, deploying state-of-the-art machine learning/artificial ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Fairness and Discrimination in Lending Decisions: Multiple Protected Characteristics Analysis
We build upon the comprehensive toolbox developed in Jain, Bowden and Cummins(2024), extending its applicability to multiple protected characteristics. We ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Enhancing Financial Crime Detection By Implementing End-to-end AI Frameworks
Economic crime, encompassing money laundering, fraud, scams, and various otherillegal financial activities, continues to evolve with the emergence of sophisticated ...