221 Results from /sustainable
Anthony Pickup Consultant at Capgemini Invent
As we move through the 2020's will these two terms become common in the Mobile phone and broadband ecosystems or fade away as the terms WAP and Fax have since the 2000’s. As a Digital Architect in Capgemini Invent, my role across businesses in assessing the technologies available and their use to deliver enhanced customer and client value is key. ...
01 March 2022 /sustainable /predictions Online Banking
Saloni Ramakrishna Author; Senior Director at Oracle
Well, the answer is obvious isn’t it – it is “EVERYBODY’s, you would say. There lies the difficulty. One of the first management lesson’s is never to make any job “everybody’s” as it has two risks inherently. Either it becomes everybody’s and nobody’s at the same time, resulting in an impasse or the boundaries and the gaps in-between one group to ...
28 February 2022 /regulation /sustainable Trends in Financial Services
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 Going green
Dean Clark Chief Technology Officer at GFT
Compared to fast fashion, fishing with nets, or drilling for oil, the use of ICT and its relationship to carbon emissions is not a well-trodden narrative. However, ICT is expected to soak up 21% of electrical consumption by 2030, with the sector demanding between 5-9% of electrical use worldwide, equating to 3.5% of emissions globally. With intern...
21 February 2022 /sustainable
Retired Member
So, how sustainable are eco-friendly cryptocurrencies, and what are their benefits in the real world? Green cryptocurrency boom Eco-friendly, or ‘green’ cryptocurrencies exploded into the headlines at the end of 2021 when Elon Musk announced that Tesla would stop accepting payments in Bitcoin due to the environmental impact of mining. At that tim...
27 January 2022 /sustainable /crypto The future of Payments in Europe
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
On a yearly basis billions of euros are donated to charity. This is done in all forms, i.e. from companies or individuals sponsoring charity events, to buying items of charity organizations all the way to the most easy form of donating directly money via a credit transfer or direct debit. Although this results in enormous money transfers, the cust...
11 January 2022 /sustainable Social Banks
Akshaya Chandra Head of Innovation, Technopreneur at Tata Consultancy Services
2021 has been a turning point, for several reasons. It has showed that human resolve, Innovation and medical advancements can do for the collective good. From extreme weather, to fighting the unknown virus and its variants, rolling out of vaccines in record speed, we have successfully crossed road humps. 2021 also saw strides in collective pledge ...
31 December 2021 /sustainable Sustainable compliance
Dmitry Dolgorukov CEO at GiniMachine
The finance industry has long been riddled with criticisms of biased lending. Studies show that minority groups often face discrimination when applying for loans. Usually, this results in higher interest rates or even outright rejection. This way inclusive lending can become another opportunity to differentiate from competitors. However, such a pr...
24 December 2021 /sustainable /inclusion Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Henry Bell Head of Product at Vendorland
In the past few decades, the innovativeness of FinTech industry has surpassed even the most optimistic expectations. The industry has dozens of large players valued in tens of billions. Many of the unicorn startups might be disrupting industries with their innovative products, but when it comes to internal planning, they’re lagging behind. FinTec...
18 December 2021 /sustainable Fintech
John Nyström Global Business Manager at Econans
The climate crisis is an extremely urgent and global concern. We can no longer postpone our efforts to fight the climate crisis; the time to act is now. The financial sector holds enormous power in funding as well as the potential to bring awareness to people influencing the climate. Historically the financial system has focused mainly on maximizin...
14 December 2021 /retail /sustainable Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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