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UK-US Summit for Democracy announces Cambridge team as joint winners of challenge to detect financial crime

31 Mar 2023

A Cambridge team has been announced as one of the winners of a prize to drive ‘innovation in privacy-enhancing technologies that reinforce democratic...

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Cambridge engagement with banks wins Green Gown Award

17 Nov 2022

The University of Cambridge, alongside Trinity and Jesus Colleges, shared a prestigious 2022 Green Gown Award in the Money for Good category for...

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New industry collaboration to study cryptocurrencies and other digital assets

01 Mar 2022

Multi-year Cambridge Digital Assets Programme launched with 16 institutional research collaborators to create open-access datasets and tools to...

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The first 'climate smart' sovereign credit ratings

18 Mar 2021

Cambridge economists add climate science to Standard & Poor’s global credit formula and find that 63 nations face downgrades by 2030 unless...

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Cambridge launches Regulatory Genome Project

21 Dec 2020

The project will use machine learning to sequence the world’s regulatory text and create an open-source repository of machine-readable regulatory...

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Cambridge Zero

26 Nov 2019

If we are to avert a climate disaster, we must sharply reduce our emissions, starting today. Cambridge Zero, the University's ambitious new climate...

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Virtual investment experiment indicates informed consumers choose sustainable funds even with reduced returns

22 Oct 2019

A new study has shown that when given clear social and environmental performance data, consumers display an appetite for sustainable investment, even...

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Gamblers predicted Brexit before financial traders, study finds

11 Jan 2019

Research shows how financial markets should have predicted Brexit hours before they eventually did, and that betting markets beat currency markets to...

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The Billingford Hutch and the moonwort fern – a medieval mystery solved

10 Dec 2017

A heavy oak chest in the Parker Library (Corpus Christi College) was used to store objects left as collateral for loans of money. Its ironwork...

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Could cryptocurrency help the ‘bottom billion’?

17 Oct 2016

Many of the world’s poorest poor don’t have access to a bank account and yet depend on being able to transfer money across borders. Could digital...

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Internet domains

Overcrowded Internet domain space is stifling demand, suggesting a future ‘not-com’ boom

01 Mar 2016

New research suggests that a lack of remaining domain names with easy to remember – and consequently valuable – word combinations is restricting...

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Opinion: G20 finance chiefs meet as China seeks to make a show of its presidency

29 Feb 2016

Peter Wiliamson (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the meeting of G20 finance chiefs and the Chinese economy.

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