Markit acquires TZ1 environmental registry from NZX

Financial data outfit Markit is collaborating with the Carbon Disclosure Project to launch a family of investment indices reflecting the financial performance of companies with strong carbon ...

A 70 foot tall billboard in downtown New York that tracks greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has been unveiled by Deutsche Bank's asset management unit.

To mark World Environment Day, Finextra and the Euro Banking Association are pleased to announce that Europe's premiere payments conference and exhibition, EBAday 2009, has been certified as a ...

Italy's UniCredit Group has inked a partnership deal with environmental organisation WWF that will see the bank cut its CO2 emissions by 30% by 2020 and provide 'green' business and home loans to ...

ABC Brazil Bank has contracted with IBM for the implementation of a new energy efficient data centre.

Citi's new Frankfurt data centre has become the first building of its kind to receive platinum accreditation for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (Leed) from the US Green Building ...

The Bank of New York Mellon has installed a 76 kilowatt solar powered system at its offices in Everett, Massachusetts in a move to reduce its carbon footprint and cut costs.

The New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) has reached a conditional agreement to buy energy market operator The Marketplace Company (M-co). Financial terms were not disclosed.

Deutsche Bank is partnering with ocean carrier e-commerce outfit Inttra to provide an electronic invoice presentment and payment (EIPP) service to the $260 billion container shipping industry.

Societe Generale has launched a green IT programme designed to cut the bank's CO2 emissions through the introduction of new technology.

Hewlett Packard (HP) has signed a $50 million technology contract with Korea's Shinhan that will involve the sale and leaseback of the bank's IT assets.

Canada's BMO Financial Group has awarded Unisys a four year contract for the provision of mainframe-class server systems and related support services.

Swedbank and Bursa Malaysia have both pledged support to the WWF's Earth Hour initiative, which will see lights around the world turned off for 60 minutes to raise awareness of climate change.

BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking has implemented a new technology platform it says will slash electricity consumption and accelerate calculation times for complex derivatives.

The UK's first direct has become the first bank to receive the Carbon Trust Standard after reducing its carbon emissions by over 14%, which equates to an annual reduction of 1500 tonnes of CO2 from ...

Deutsche Bank has embarked on a programme to carry out a 'green' technological modernisation of its iconic twin-tower office blocks in Frankfurt.

Finextra has launched the Innovation Showcase, a new feature on Finextra.com highlighting the most innovative financial technology developments over the past 12 months. Across a broad range of ...

IBM has won a $3.1 million contract with Religare Enterprises to build green data centres for the Indian financial services firm in a bid to cut annual power costs by over 30%.

BNP Paribas has launched an online game, Ace Manager, which will see 4000 students from around the world compete in a virtual world to accomplish banking related missions.

Korea's Kookmin Bank has selected IBM System z10 mainframe technology and DB2 servers as the foundation for a next-generation core banking application platform designed to consolidate all of the ...

India's Kotak Mahindra Bank has inked a $5 million IT infrastructure services deal with IBM for the construction and maintenance of a green data centre and IP network infrastructure.