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Multiverse and Muxunav drive a new generation of AI models for the financial sector

Multiverse Computing and Muxunav have closed a strategic alliance to design and launch a new family of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models aimed at the regulated financial sector and unattended commerce, keeping the focus on regulatory compliance and security.According to what Multiverse Computing has reported in a statement, the collaboration with...

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CECA points out inflation and public debt as the main economic risk areas.

The general director of the employers' association CECA, Antonio Romero, has pointed out that, in the current economic context, inflation and high public debt have become the main risk areas for the economy.During his speech at the 'XVII Financial Meeting' organized by KPMG and 'Expansión', Romero explained that the geopolitical...

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Botín asks Brussels for a regulatory truce: what rules does the big European banking want to stop

The executive president of Banco Santander, Ana Botín, and the heads of ten other major European banks have called on Brussels for a temporary moratorium on new increases in capital requirements and to accelerate the simplification of banking regulation. In a letter sent to the European Commission, the European Council,...

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Tikehau Capital materializes gains in technology and strengthens its bet on health, industry, and basic consumption.

The alternative asset management and investment firm Tikehau Capital has decided to partially reduce the exposure of its fund Tikehau International Cross Assets to large technology companies, after carrying out selective profit-taking, and has redirected part of those resources towards quality companies in the health, industrial, and essential consumer sectors.In...

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78% of the financial and insurance sector drives benefit plans for its staff, according to Pluxee.

78% of companies in the financial and insurance sector have benefit plans for their staff, a proportion clearly higher than the average of the Spanish business fabric, which stands at 65%, according to the report "Keys to the new labor balance: trends and challenges 2026" prepared by Pluxee.Almost all companies...

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Deutsche Bank strengthens its commitment to female leadership with Women in Banking Spain

Deutsche Bank has strengthened its alliance with Women in Banking Spain (WIB), the association dedicated to empowering female talent in the Spanish financial industry, thus consolidating its support for inclusion, a sense of belonging, professional development, and the promotion of women's leadership in the financial sector.This collaboration supports the common...

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The Government promotes a law to digitize and modernize the financial system

The Council of Ministers has given the green light to the bill that introduces changes in several regulations in order to advance the digitalization and modernization of the financial sector, and has decided to send the text to the General Courts for parliamentary processing.This initiative aims to align the Spanish...

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80% of the financial sector anticipates stability or an increase in sustainable financing in 2026

80% of experts and executives of financial entities in Spain anticipate that sustainable financing will remain stable or continue to grow in 2026, in a market that is entering a stage marked by greater demands, selection, and transformation, according to the Ofiso 2026 Survey.In detail, 44% of those consulted believe...

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Economy presents next week the law of digitalization and modernization of the financial system

The Ministry of Economy will present this Monday a new reform, the law of digitalization and modernization of the financial system. It is one of the projects foreseen in the Annual Regulatory Plan that the Government planned to send this year to the Cortes Generales. Everything points to it being approved...

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Emirates warns of "advanced" cyberattacks against its financial network

The authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have reported this Friday a series of "advanced" cyberattacks directed against various entities in the financial sector, incidents that would have been satisfactorily neutralized thanks to the action of the national cybersecurity system.According to the Emirati Cybersecurity Council, citing information disseminated by...

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Government promises Congress to reactivate the Financial Customer Authority upon return from summer

Last assault for the Financial Consumer Defence Authority. The Government wants to try to move forward with the star bill of the Ministry of Economy after the summer. According to several parliamentary sources informing DEMÓCRATA, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Business, Carlos Cuerpo, has conveyed in recent days to the...

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José Ignacio Goirigolzarri, awarded the Asnef Prize in the Economic Field

The National Association of Financial Credit Establishments (Asnef) has awarded the "II Asnef Prize in the Economic Sphere" to José Ignacio Goirigolzarri, former president of Bankia and, in his last stage, also of CaixaBank, as the organization communicated this Friday.The distinction was presented to him by the deputy governor of...

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The global regulator warns that AI can aggravate risks in finance

The Financial Stability Board (FSB), an international financial supervisor, maintains that artificial intelligence has the potential to profoundly transform financial services and entities' business models, but also to amplify or introduce new risks into the system that must be identified and managed appropriately.In a report on best practices for the...

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61% of financial firms will increase their spending on AI, but only 14% of their executives master it

61.2% of companies in the financial sector plan to increase their budget for artificial intelligence (AI) in the short term, even though only 14.4% of senior executives in those same entities declare having complete knowledge of this technology. These conclusions come from a survey conducted by the European Securities and...

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Banking protests: what they demand, where the concentrations will be and all the keys

The banking sector takes to the streets. The workforces of the financial sector are called to mobilize this June 3rd in different Spanish cities. The call, promoted by CCOO, comes in a context of record profits for the main banking entities and after the publication of a comprehensive study on...

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Financial sector

Multiverse and Muxunav drive a new generation of AI models for the financial sector

CECA points out inflation and public debt as the main economic risk areas.

Botín asks Brussels for a regulatory truce: what rules does the big European banking want to stop

Tikehau Capital materializes gains in technology and strengthens its bet on health, industry, and basic consumption.

78% of the financial and insurance sector drives benefit plans for its staff, according to Pluxee.

Deutsche Bank strengthens its commitment to female leadership with Women in Banking Spain

The Government promotes a law to digitize and modernize the financial system

80% of the financial sector anticipates stability or an increase in sustainable financing in 2026

Economy presents next week the law of digitalization and modernization of the financial system

Emirates warns of "advanced" cyberattacks against its financial network

Government promises Congress to reactivate the Financial Customer Authority upon return from summer

José Ignacio Goirigolzarri, awarded the Asnef Prize in the Economic Field

The global regulator warns that AI can aggravate risks in finance

61% of financial firms will increase their spending on AI, but only 14% of their executives master it

Banking protests: what they demand, where the concentrations will be and all the keys

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