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Climate Related Financial Risks – “To Manage or NOT to is NOT the question – the “HOW To” is!!

At the outset I want to make it clear that this article is NOT about Climate Policy, it is not about climate change mitigation or adoption measures, it is not about the differing views geographical or geopolitical on its relevance, it is not about the ideological debates on what each stakeholder must do. It is about REAL impact of Climate Related ...

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Afra De Leeuw

Afra De Leeuw Communications Specialist at Triodos Investment Management

ESG backlash doesn't make economic sense

The geopolitical shifts we've seen in recent months seem to have accelerated the backlash against Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices that had already been building up for some time. Are we witnessing a structural shift away from ESG principles or merely a temporary setback? Experts Rosl Veltmeijer, Lewis Johnston and Joeri de Wi...

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King Leung

King Leung Global Head of Financial Services and FinTech at InvestHK

Hong Kong FinTech Can Drive Green Investment Stability in a Disrupted World

Current disruptions to global trade norms risk pricing out developing nations from critical green technologies and deter related investments. This stalls both decarbonisation and economic growth in regions most reliant on affordable imports. Here, Hong Kong has a unique role to play. According to United Nations Trade and Development, developing ec...

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Sara Costantini

Sara Costantini Regional Director for the UK and Ireland at CRIF

Sustainability and ethics stand at a crossroads: will Europe keep leading the way?

Financial services are the backbone of economies across the world. The sector fuels growth, enables innovation and has a huge societal impact. Yet as the sector grows, so does the responsibility it has, including its commitment to sustainability, ethical leadership, and inclusive values. And in Europe, those responsibilities and values seem to be ...

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Kanchan Mishra

Kanchan Mishra CEO at SustainoMetric

Tariffs and Trade Turbulence: Is your Supply Chain Ready for New Uncertainties?

For any organisation relying on a global supply chain, weathering storms caused by macroeconomics, geopolitics, or regional conflict is nothing new. Smart businesses factor these potential impacts into their supply chain design from the outset. Modern supply chains are intricate, often comprising numerous businesses responsible for different eleme...

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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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Financial Risk Management and the Environmental Crocodile Analogy

In this interview, Sandy Trust, Director of Sustainability Risk, Baillie Gifford joins the FinextraTV Unplugged studio to discuss how existing financial risk management disciplines align with the avoidance of environmental disruption through a crocodile analogy. As the lead author for a series of climate-related risk reports for The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, he reflects on the reception of the papers and the challenges and optimisms ahead. Dashboard mentioned: https://global-tipping-points.org/risk-dashboard/

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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...

Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

What are sustainable securities?

In recent years the shores of sustainable finance have been battered by the choppy waters of geopolitics. Despite a surge in growth, public interest, and market momentum between 2020 and 2022 (a result of progressive policy, disclosure frameworks, and an explosion in environmental, social and governance [ESG] investment products) sustainable finan...

Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

What are debt-for-nature swaps and what is their impact on climate financing?

Debt-for-nature swaps have become more common among nations in attempts to boost conservation efforts and refinancing climate. The concept of debt-for-nature swaps is for creditors to forgive governmental debt in return for their commitment to sustainable and green initiatives, allowing for indebted countries to ease their financial burden whilst f...