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Yahya Mohamed Mao Head of Business Development & Marketing at Swiss GRC
The ESG (environmental, social, governance) movement has received considerable attention and financial support in recent years, leading to a number of new investment products and funds being launched around the world. ESG investments already account for more than $20 trillion in AUM, or almost one-quarter of all professionally managed assets globa...
05 June 2022 /sustainable /markets
Simon Cureton CEO at Funding Options
SMEs are falling behind in the race to net zero. The threat of a regulatory ‘stick’ hangs over them, with companies likely to face repercussions in future if targets are not met. Understandably, there are also fears of being accused of 'greenwashing'. Indeed, more than four months on from COP26, and with rising demand to tackle carbon emissions, t...
04 April 2022 /sustainable /startups
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
As COVID-19 prompted people to think about their impact on the planet, banks have reviewed their approach to environmental, social & governance (ESG) with fresh eyes. KPMG’s 2021 ESG risks in banks report notes there is increasing demand from investors for sustainable products, as well as growing pressure from regulatory bodies to consider ESG...
17 March 2022 /payments /sustainable
Sheza Gary Project Strategiest at Self Employed
A carbon footprint measures the number of greenhouse gases produced in a human's day-to-day activities. Therefore, reducing it improves the sustainability of the environment to a great extent, while increasing it has opposite effects. Sustainability greatly affects all sectors, including the banking sector. Banks are now adopting sustainability pr...
23 February 2022 /retail /sustainable
Kartik Swaminathan Author - 3F: Future Fintech Framework & Founder at Fintastech (Fintech Consulting & Coaching)
Looking at everything from the lens of Sustainability is the mantra now a days. Doing so, addresses most of the challenges faced by organisations & Individuals, and offers an approach for a better future for us all. Let us therefore look at how FinTech’s help us realise a truly sustainable future. To begin with Fintech’s are helping reduce carb...
25 October 2021 /people /sustainable
Peter Plochan Principal Risk Advisor at SAS
The United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow is just around the corner. Kicking off at the end October, the mega conference will host representatives from nearly 200 countries for two weeks, with a focus on reviewing of the Paris Agreement and each country’s carbon reduction commitments. The Paris Agreement: where...
21 October 2021 /regulation /sustainable
Praveen Sharma Head, Banking and Financial Services Practice-N.A at Virtusa
In 2015, the United Nations Member States released the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focused on key areas affecting the planet. These SDGs have had a very profound impact on the banking and finance sector, launching sustainable finance initiatives and forever changing the mandates for chief information officers (CIO). At a high level, ...
04 August 2021 /sustainable
The constant and ubiquitous transfer of data from various sources to a single government entity has led to concerns that these sources could turn into electronic panoptics as governments use data-driven technologies to maximize effective surveillance of their citizens. Smart City technologies have been developed with practical applications to impr...
02 August 2021 /sustainable /predictions
Retired Member
On the path to global net zero carbon emissions, the finance industry is a key driver while technology is an enabler of sustainability. To make meaningful progress to mitigate climate change, the global finance industry needs technology to mobilize investments and quantify climate risk. Financiers also must adopt collaborative, secure and trusted ...
05 May 2021 /sustainable
Richard Peers Founder at ResponsibleRisk Ltd
One of my favourite events of the year is the CIO Summit organised by Johnny Spragg at CMC. I like it because it's very participative. Everyone attending gets deeply engaged in the different topics At the opening of the most recent summit, the ice breaker was an Oxford Union style debate. The topic of the day was that banks need to change to surviv...
30 December 2019 /sustainable
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