241 Results from /sustainable
Philippe Vappereau General Manager at Calypso Networks Association
The aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with increased inflation and the rising cost of living has forced the transport industry, like many others, to adapt. Therefore, as we enter 2023, public transport authorities and operators should change their priorities to meet customer needs, such as the increased demand for contactless ticketing p...
21 December 2022 /payments /sustainable Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Maria Schuld Head of Regional and Community Banking at FIS
Getting to common ground According to the Oxford dictionary, sustainability is: The avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance. This definition often takes the form of strategies within organizations and businesses looking to make a greener, better world as they communicate to stakeholders their sense...
19 December 2022 /retail /sustainable Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
Can blockchains be used as incentive networks for encouraging green activity and renewables? ESG is an important use case for blockchain. Regulators are understandably concerned about green investing and specifically, greenwashing, and the chain doesn’t lie, so blockchain technology is entirely aligned with achieving ESG objectives and guidelines. ...
03 December 2022 /wealth /sustainable Blockchain Observations
Retired Member
Over the past few years, the financial services sector has undergone a complex regulatory evolution. Even past the usual flow of regulation change and shifting reporting standards, there are two key trends driving this change, and which put firms at risk of falling behind if not grappled with effectively. The first trend is the ever-growing inves...
15 November 2022 /regulation /sustainable Financial Services Regulation
Daily, people’s lives are becoming increasingly automated as millions of algorithms make decisions and take actions on consumers’ behalf. The shift toward autonomous finance services starts with automated investment management, savings, and payments. Algorithm-based services lower the cognitive burden on users and strive to enhance financial resul...
04 November 2022 /retail /sustainable Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Nish Kotecha Co-Founder & Chairman at Finboot
As the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference - or COP27 - nears, the world will be looking to global leaders for answers, solutions and commitments as they gather in Egypt. Climate change and the environment continues to be a huge issue for business, governments and society at large, and the technology sector is no different. In fact, globa...
01 November 2022 /sustainable
Good companies continuously ask themselves: what are we doing now to prepare for the future? When it comes to regulatory technology (RegTech), and specifically compliance technology, the temptation to brush off this task with rationale related to cost, necessity, or implementation effort could come at a big price, more resources required, time sp...
26 October 2022 /regulation /sustainable
Niall Haughey Founder at To Graze Limited
Peer to Peer or P2P models in Fintech were one of the earliest to take hold post Financial Crisis. Some companies flourished and some got stuck. The asset base of Agriculture lends itself quite well to a collateralised P2P model and there are some excellent examples in the sector to consider: Acre Trader in the US have created an entire category a...
17 October 2022 /sustainable /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Last week I had the pleasure again to attend the yearly Digital Finance Summit (DFS) in Brussels (organized by Fintech Belgium). As each year, this was a super-interesting and fully-packed day of interesting panels, keynotes and networking, allowing to get a good update of what’s living in the Fintech scene in general and in the Fintech scene in B...
11 October 2022 /sustainable /startups Fintech World
Embedded finance and retail go hand in hand and this is no different in Ag retail. Correct Agriculture Retail. This is important as this sector is worth $56bn in North America alone and some estimates claim 90% of payments are still made using paper checks. However, a recent SPAC proposition to combine an ag retail footprint in Brazil (Lavoro) wit...
06 October 2022 /sustainable /startups Innovation in Financial Services
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