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AFME: ‘Financial materiality is not sustainable finance’s end goal’

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AFME: ‘Financial materiality is not sustainable finance’s end goal’

In conversation with Richard Peers for Finextra TV, Tonia Plakhotniuk, associate director, policy (sustainable finance & financial reporting) at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) traverses a number of predications we can expect to see around sustainable finance in 2021.

CES 2021: Stripe and Plaid reveal Covid-19 ‘pressed fast forward’ on digital payments acceptance

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CES 2021: Stripe and Plaid reveal Covid-19 ‘pressed fast forward’ on digital payments acceptance

As Andrew B. Morris from The Fintech Agenda, LLC highlights at CES 2021, the dark clouds of Covid-19 had a silver lining for the fintech industry. Unicorns Stripe and Plaid supported the global shift to a contactless economy, helping businesses deliver products and services to consumers who had collectively formed new daily habits for everything. Ginger Baker and Erika Wool explain what's next for the payments giants.

The Future of ESGTech 2020

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The Future of ESGTech 2020

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Establishing and defining climate fintech as an industry in its own right

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Establishing and defining climate fintech as an industry in its own right

A lot has changed since the fintech boom of the 2010s and the subsequent genesis of innovation, new business models, new user experiences and the formation of new companies. Richard Peers, founder of Responsible Risk and contributing editor at Finextra Research speaks to Aaron McCreary, climate fintech lead at New Energy Nexus about how a similar wave will sweep through the sustainable finance space in 2021.

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Earth Knowledge tackle sustainable finance risk assessment

Earth Knowledge, a global sustainability information technology leader, after years of building and refining authoritative earth-systems models and processes, have simplified the assessment of risk and opportunity for sustainable finance through the calibration of over 140 critical indicators.

Sustainable Finance Live: Building actionable ESGtech strategies with a partnership ecosystem

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Sustainable Finance Live: Building actionable ESGtech strategies with a partnership ecosystem

Finextra Research and Responsible Risk hosted Sustainable Finance Live this week, the third workshop in a series of events encouraging collaboration in the ESGtech space.

Sustainable Finance Live: Using real-time measurement of climate change to address risk

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Sustainable Finance Live: Using real-time measurement of climate change to address risk

Finextra Research and Responsible Risk today hosted Sustainable Finance Live, the second virtual workshop in a series of events designed to create actionable ESGtech strategies and build an ecosystem of partnerships that will turn strategy into reality.

WWF and World Bank report highlights opportunities in spatial finance

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WWF and World Bank report highlights opportunities in spatial finance

Ahead of Sustainable Finance Live, a Finextra Research and Responsible Risk event, WWF and The World Bank have released a report highlighting how the financial sector can benefit from the emerging field of spatial finance, complementing existing ESG data streams and providing an outline for a robust taxonomy.

Deutsche Börse buys majority stake in ISS for ESG play

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Deutsche Börse buys majority stake in ISS for ESG play

Deutsche Börse has agreed to buy an 80% stake in governance, ESG data and analytics provider Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) in a deal that values the firm at nearly $2.3 billion.

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Landmark Information launches ESG management platform

Landmark Information has today launched its new Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) management platform - RiskHorizon - focused on delivering rich, comprehensive assessments to a broad audience of investors, property asset owners and managers, from private equity and investment houses to corporates and their lawyers.

FactSet agrees to buy ESG data firm TruValue

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FactSet agrees to buy ESG data firm TruValue

Financial analytics vendor FactSet has agreed to buy AI-driven environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data outfit Truvalue Labs. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Coutts MD: Sustainability is about ‘unpeeling’ investment decision making

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Coutts MD: Sustainability is about ‘unpeeling’ investment decision making

Mohammad Kamal Syed, managing director and head of investment management at Coutts & Co, tells Finextra Research of the ‘root and branch uplift’ in the firm’s investment decision making to address ESG goals.

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Landmark Information buys RiskHorizon

Landmark Information – the leading provider of information to the UK’s property market – has today announced it has acquired the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) due diligence platform, RiskHorizon™, from global sustainability consultancy Anthesis Group.

Sibos 2020: Defining sustainable finance and ESG, beyond climate action and the environment

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Sibos 2020: Defining sustainable finance and ESG, beyond climate action and the environment

As wildfires, hurricanes, social and economic unrest and the pandemic play out across the global stage, the final of day of Sibos 2020 focuses on banking for humanity, the impact of ESG and the triple bottom line as a driver for sustainable business.

EY: Sustainable goals in finance won’t be met with traditional behaviours

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EY: Sustainable goals in finance won’t be met with traditional behaviours

Financial services firms must evolve their mindsets to both manage risk effectively and to ensure that the industry meets sustainable goals, according to Sandy Trust, sustainable finance consulting lead at EY and deputy chair of the IFOA’s Sustainability Board.

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Finastra brings financial inclusion to developing markets in APAC

Finastra has announced plans around a range of initiatives which will enable its customers to accelerate through change, as well as creating positive outcomes for millions of people around the world. The move is part of the company’s ongoing innovation and open cloud platform strategy.

Finastra to prioritise tackling financial exclusion and SME funding issues

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Finastra to prioritise tackling financial exclusion and SME funding issues

As part of its accelerated innovation mission and open cloud platform strategy, Finastra has set forth a plan to support nine million lives around the world and focus on resolving the SME funding gap, inequality in financial services and financial exclusion.

Coalition of UK banks launched to standardise carbon accounting

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Coalition of UK banks launched to standardise carbon accounting

The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) is launching a coalition aimed at the promotion of measuring and disclosing carbon emissions in the UK financial services industry.

CFTC report makes urgent call for data to mitigate climate risk

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CFTC report makes urgent call for data to mitigate climate risk

In the first ever comprehensive recommendation to be provided by a US financial regulatory agency to other regulators and financial institutions, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee has released a strong warning signal about climate risk management.

Maths for ESG: How one calculation could ignite climate action

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Maths for ESG: How one calculation could ignite climate action

A cluster of ESG driven minds are honing a risk-weighting methodology for banks to implement across climate-exposed assets.

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