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Francesco Fulcoli

Francesco Fulcoli Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Flagstone

Connecting eNPS and Performance Reviews: Building a 360° Feedback Culture

Achieving a balance between organizational health and individual performance is critical for long-term success. Two key tools that help organizations achieve this are the Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) and performance reviews. While these tools serve distinct purposes, their interaction offers powerful insights that can drive engagement, produ...

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Erica Andersen

Erica Andersen Marketing at smartR AI

Reducing the Burden on Resources with SLMs and Edge Computing

There is a different way, contrary to the big is better AI campaign of the big cartel, so obviously eager to control every industry along with people and planet. Limitless cash despite the lack of revenue and deafening government silence and compliance, suggests tech, like financialisation, has become to big for its boots. This cartel is killing

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Paul Holland

Paul Holland CEO at Beyond Encryption

Why banks cannot afford to ignore sustainability

Sustainability has rapidly moved to the forefront of corporate priorities, placing immense pressure on the financial sector to reduce its environmental impact. Beyond regulatory mandates and boardroom discussions, the expectations of consumers are clear. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of consumers are more likely to choose a bank that ...

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Matt Riggall

Matt Riggall Head of Commercial Lending Vertical, Cap. Markets at FIS

Climate and Sustainability-Linked Lending: A Game-Changer for Banks

APAC banks are uniquely positioned to lead the shift toward climate and sustainability-linked lending (SLL). However, this type of lending isn’t without its challenges — particularly when working with mid-market and small businesses. For many of these companies, tracking and reporting Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions is often complex, expensive, and ti...

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Erica Andersen

Erica Andersen Marketing at smartR AI

A Financial Services Perspective on the Power of Specialized Language Models and Edge Computing

In recent years, the world has witnessed the rise of a powerful cartel of tech giants, each vying for control over every industry, including financial services. Their "big is better" approach to artificial intelligence (AI) has led to a proliferation of large language models (LLMs) that guzzle energy and resources, suffocating main stre

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Francesco Fulcoli

Francesco Fulcoli Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Flagstone

Connecting eNPS and Performance Reviews: Building a 360° Feedback Culture

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Event Report

Sustainable Finance Live – Natural Capital Finance

A Record from the Sustainable Finance Live Conference and Hackathon 2024  On 8 October 2024, Finextra Research and ResponsibleRisk held the annual Sustainable Finance Live hybrid conference and hackathon, in partnership with NayaOne.  The conference took place at Events@ No6 in London, and started off with a welcome from founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor for Finextra, Richard Peers. Peers opened with an introduction outlining the themes and objectives of this year’s event: to understand natural capital risk, pricing, and trade.  The focus areas of the conference were natural capital, agriculture, supply chains, as well as regulation and reporting. The sessions also highlighted highlighting new technologies that are being used to collect nature-related data such as Earth observation and satellite reporting.  Richard Peers, contributing editor at Finextra and founder of ResponsibleRisk, moderated the conference: “What we wanted to do is to put on an event aimed at explaining the landscape of a natural capital transaction, with the associated data providers identified along the way. Ending the process in an asset management trading platform, taking into consideration all the steps that a regulated entity has to undertake, to prove to the financial industry that this can be an asset class, that is as tradable as any other.”  Download a Visual Record of the event below to discover key themes of the event’s panels, keynotes, and hackathon. We cover:  Natural capital trading from field to trade;  How nature financing can be achieved;  The role of data, economic profit, and policy for natural capital;  How to build a sustainable ecosystem using natural value;  Visions and results from the hackathon;  And more. 

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The Future of UK Fintech - 2015-2035

An IFGS Special Edition UK Fintech Week 2024 With UK Fintech Week's flagship event - Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS) - returning for its 10th anniversary, Finextra and Innovate Finance have partnered to publish this report, which acts as your go-to-guide to everything you need to know about financial services and technology in the UK. ‘The Future of UK Fintech: 2015 – 2035: An IFGS Special Edition’ includes commentary from the brightest and best across the fintech ecosystem, discussing and debating the crucial issues facing the sector now and in years to come. This includes key insights from industry experts from Cogo, EY, Konsentus, Marqeta, Standard Chartered Ventures, and Zopa Bank. Scoping out the next decade to come, this report explores the agenda topics below and more: The Next Decade of FS and Innovation: What Lies Ahead Fintech Beyond FS Borders: How Fintech is Impacting other Industries and Sectors UK and the World: Keeping our Crown while Learning from Others Transformative Technologies: Opportunities and Risks Users of Tomorrow: The Next Generation of Consumers The Shifting Ecosystem: Who Will Lead?

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Event Report

Cloud innovation paves path to the future

An open banking platform has the power to transform a bank, whether the bank is looking to modernise using technology on-premise, in the cloud or as Software-asa-Service (SaaS). In turn, banks gain access to endless opportunities to engage with customers and scale for massive demand. This event report, in association with Temenos, highlights the key takeaways from Temenos Community Forum 2023 that took place in Vienna, Austria. Bringing industry experts and partners together to explore new opportunities opened up by emerging technologies and the cloud, this year’s overarching event theme was ‘Engage and Grow in a Cloud World’. In this report, we explore the different ways that the cloud is accelerating transformation in the industry, including: Why banks are being disrupted by BaaS and embedded finance services; How agility, innovation, and customer experience are gaining momentum on the cloud; How to build resilient cloud infrastructure for sustainability; And more.

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Why Biodiversity is Mainstream for Financial Services Now

Join FinextraTV as Anita de Horde, co-founder and executive director, Finance for Biodiversity Foundation, discusses COP16 in comparison to the momentum gained after COP15, which was the first biodiversity conference that saw hundreds of financial services professionals attending and in turn, showcasing how influential biodiversity is becoming when industries consider standards, measurements, and solutions. The conversation also covered some of the failures from COP16, where funding that is being sought to address nature issues could not be agreed between the Global North and the Global South, and resource mobilisation and strategy also remained unfortunately stagnant.

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Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

10 B Corp-certified financial institutions

US-based organisation, B Labs is rapidly becoming a globally-recognised symbol of ethical business, with more and more businesses undergoing the vigorous process to become B Corp-certified. B Labs is working to expand its guidelines to include all types of businesses, and will likely to continue to develop and improve on requirements as the global...

Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

What the EU deforestation law delay means for fintech

The EU deforestation law was proposed in June 2023 to propel environmental efforts by curbing logging and deforestation practices in nations that export to the EU. The legislation was a move towards reducing EU consumers’ impact on global deforestation, however it saw pushback from multiple nations. What is the EU deforestation law? The law would ...

Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Fracking hell: What Trump’s second presidency means for green initiatives

After a whirlwind election that saw the US map run red earlier this month, Donald Trump has been elected as the 47th US president. With a Republican majority in the Senate and House of Representatives, it is expected that sustainable ambitions and green initiatives will be taking a backseat (to say it lightly) for the next four years. While Democra...