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Finextra partners with Finastra for Hack to the Future 4

Finextra has today announced a partnership with financial services software provider, Finastra, for its annual event, Hack to the Future.

08 March 2022

News/payments

NextGen Nordics: Circular economy startup Loopfront sees 300% increase in users

Ahead of our NextGen Nordics conference on 27 April 2022, we will be putting together a weekly briefing of all the top stories that are emerging out of the region and setting the blueprint for payments innovation across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

04 March 2022

News/startups

CommerzVentures closes €300m third fund

Germany's Commerzbank has committed €300 million to the third CommerzVentures fund, which will invest in startups in fintech, insurtech and climate fintech.

02 March 2022

Company update/people

Singapore ESG fintech Stacs names Sharon Yuen chief commercial officer

Stacs (‘Hashstacs Pte Ltd’) announced today a leadership appointment, Sharon Yuen as the new Chief Commercial Officer, who will be steering the leading Singapore-headquartered Environmental, Social, and Governance (‘ESG’) FinTech firm’s business development and sales efforts.

01 March 2022

Company update/people

Aviva appoints Tumelo CEO Georgia Stewart to Independent Governance Committee

Aviva has today announced the appointment of Georgia Stewart to its Independent Governance Committee (IGC) as a non-independent member*. Georgia is a co-founder and CEO of Tumelo, a company which inspires and enables pension members to engage with companies they are invested in on issues they care about, such as gender equality, human rights, and climate change. Georgia replaces Robert Talbut who stepped down from Aviva’s IGC at the end of 2021.

25 February 2022

Company update/sustainable

EQS expands strategic focus and becomes ESG tech provider

EQS Group AG (ISIN: DE0005494165) expands its strategic focus to include solutions in the area of sustainability and become an ESG technology provider.

17 February 2022

News/crypto

Mastercard adds crypto, open banking and ESG consulting services

Mastercard is expanding its consulting services with new practices dedicated to open banking, open data, crypto and digital currencies, and ESG.

15 February 2022

News/sustainable

NatWest launches Climate Hub to help SMEs go green

Under its £100 billion Climate and Sustainable Funding and Finance ambition, NatWest is now providing tools, via an online Climate Hub, to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) go green.

11 February 2022

Research/ESGtech

The Future of Regulation 2022

07 February 2022 1112 downloads

News/sustainable

WildEarth NFTs show conservation is about supporting people as much as wildlife

In a bid to help protect endangered animals, British TV channel, WildEarth, has launched its own NFTs. Crucially, 40% of the primary sale proceeds go to local custodians of the land on which the animals live. In an exclusive interview with Finextra, Graham Wallington, co-founder, CEO, WildEarth, explained the philosophy behind this approach: nature can look after itself – it just needs a home. The real mission is to ensure local populations have an economic incentive to not poach.

04 February 2022

News/sustainable

Climate fintech funding 3x higher than all previous years combined - CommerzVentures

According to CommerzVentures’ second report on climate fintech, venture capital (VC) funding for fintechs driving net-zero economies hit a record high in 2021.

04 February 2022

Company update/sustainable

ResearchPool launches buy-side data collection tool

ResearchPool, the innovative investment research and data solutions provider, announces today the launch of a new tool for enterprise customers that will allow buy-side firms to aggregate fragmented, locally stored data - such as environmental, social and governance (ESG), proprietary or fundamental data, often saved in multiple formats, such as spreadsheets, emails, and PDFs - into a single firm-wide, cloud-based hub.

03 February 2022

News/sustainable

EDMC study highlights 11 key challenges around ESG data

The EDM Council (EDMC) has just released a study which provides recommendations to ratings providers and data aggregators (RPDAs) on major challenges around the ESG data supply chain.

28 January 2022

News/startups

Etcho to offer SDG-linked investment app

The sustainable development goal-linked investment app Etcho recently closed its pre-seed funding round, raising £279,000 from angel investors and on Crowdcube.

28 January 2022

Company update/sustainable

CaixaBank launches ESG advisory service for corporate customers

CaixaBank has launched a new environmental, social and governance (ESG) advisory service to help its corporate and institutional customers to analyse and establish a sustainable strategy and positioning.

21 January 2022

Company update/sustainable

Dow Jones launches sustainability data set for ESG

Dow Jones announced the launch of its sustainability data to help the global financial community understand the performance and impact of a company’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The initial offering is available for asset managers to make sustainable investment decisions and to better engage the growing audience of purpose-driven investors.

21 January 2022

News/sustainable

City of London policy chair hails UK capital as a centre of green finance

This week, the FCA and the City of London Corporation held a demo day for its Sustainability Cohort initiative, which aims to further green the financial sector and catalyse the transition to net zero.

18 January 2022

News/sustainable

Doconomy raises $19 million to accelerate carbon emission reduction goal

Climate data platform Doconomy has raised $19m of equity capital to help accelerate expansion and the recruitment of new talent.

17 January 2022

Research/ESGtech

Sustainable Finance Live - Supply Chain Traceability: Better Data, Lower Risk

20 December 2021 79 downloads

Finextra TV/sustainable

SCOR Investment Partners’ three steps to identify the extra financial value within the supply chain

Guillaume Levannier, Sustainable Investment Officer at SCOR Investment Partners, speaks on FinextraTV to explain how we can identify the correct and material KPIs to assess the extra financial value within the value chain, and how collaborating in the SustainableFinance.Live workshops helps him to improve SCOR Investment Partners’ data aggregation and harmonization approach.

17 December 2021