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Kanchan Mishra

Kanchan Mishra CEO at SustainoMetric

Pressure and Purpose: How Sustainability NGOs are Proving Their Value in a Hostile Climate

For decades, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been the primary force pushing sustainability onto boardroom agendas. They have worked tirelessly to frame environmental and social governance not just as a matter of reputational risk or strategic importance, but as a fundamental component of value creation and societal benefit. From advanci...

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Mohit Agarwal

Mohit Agarwal Director, Strategy and Innovation at SustainoMetric

ESG And AI: the reality behind the myth

AI is often positioned as the force that will transform ESG analysis. Advocates present it as the technology that can finally tame the complexity of sustainability data. There is merit in this view, AI can certainly accelerate data collection, sift vast quantities of information, and highlight patterns quickly. Yet the real challenge is not the so...

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Priyanka Naik

Priyanka Naik Fintech Professional

How Fintech Can Decode the 2022 Energy Crisis: Lessons from UK Electricity Prices

The global energy crisis of 2022 was not just an energy-sector issue — it became a financial shock with direct implications for markets, consumers, and policy. For investors, banks, and Fintech platforms, the crisis raised urgent questions: how do commodity shocks ripple into electricity prices, and how can technology help us model and respond to ...

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Stuart Evans

Stuart Evans Chief Economist at Fastmarkets Carbon

Why carbon credit quality is now driving corporate strategy

In Indonesia, a peatland forest area as large as Greater London is being protected through initiatives that reduce wildfire risk and create economic opportunities for local communities, helping to curb deforestation. These efforts are financed through carbon credits, with recent buyers paying more than $10 per tonne of carbon to support conservati...

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Sergio Artimenia

Sergio Artimenia CEO at Geomotiv

When “Sustainable” Means Nuclear: ESG’s Surprising Pivot to Defense

The acronym ESG — environmental, social, and governance — has long been associated with solar farms, wind turbines, and corporate ethics policies. Yet new data suggests a striking turn: an increasing share of ESG equity funds in Europe are now channeling money into nuclear weapons manufacturers. According to Bloomberg, funds that claim to “promo...

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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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Geospatial Analytics and AI: Actionable Intelligence Into African Water Risks

A year on from their Established Category win at the SF.Live Hackathon, Rochelle Mountany, CEO, AfriGIS and Helen Hulett, Chief Sustainabilty Officer, AfriGIS discussed the use of geospatial insights and AI with Richard Peers, Founder, ResponsibleRisk. Mountany explained how challenges like the Hackathon allow companies to test their teams and products in an environment where there is no threat of failure. Speaking to the evolution of geospatial solutions, Hulett described how these have helped asses water risks within Africa, stating that one of the biggest risks in Africa is how the water has been governed and managed on the ground. Hulett further explained how the financial sector is keen to invest in this sector, but don't understand enough about the issues and risks involved.

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Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

EU Sustainability Omnibus Act passed – what does it mean for the future of sustainable reporting?

This week the European Parliament passed a vote to cut sustainability reporting and due diligence laws. The Sustainability Omnibus Act was proposed on 26 February 2025, pushing for cuts to sustainability regulations as outlined in the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) to...

Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

What does NZBA’s decline in big bank members mean for sustainability in banking?

The fact the Net-Zero Banking Alliance is smaller now than it was last year could be deemed a failure for the organisation, and by many advocates of action to mitigate climate change, as a shameful reversal of commitment not just by the top institutions in the banking industry, but of society itself. But what if the exit from the volunteer body – ...

Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Carbon markets in 2025: A year of volatility and innovation

The carbon market is a dynamic and fast-moving space within sustainable finance. As it is nascent, fintechs, regulators, and financial institutions are still in the process of standardising and organising the carbon market so that carbon credits can mitigate climate change and propel us down the road to net zero. Weighing up where we stand amid al...