221 Results from /sustainable
Yahya Mohamed Mao Head of Business Development & Marketing at Swiss GRC
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 Going green
Retired Member
Leadership and business dilemmas teaching finance under the new light of sustainability According to the best-selling book Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World, “traditional finance may be the single biggest stumbling block to reimagining capitalism.” This can generate an ethical dilemma for somebody like Prof. Carlos Casanuev...
26 July 2021 /sustainable Finance 2.0
Kas Mohammed VP Digital Energy at Schneider Electric
The art of a good finance team is knowing when costs need to expand to support growth and spotting opportunities to streamline outgoings and improve efficiency. Typically, this revolves around the company’s greatest asset – its talent. Assessing pay, incentivising performance, ensuring KPIs are met, and managing expenditure are at the core of the ...
16 July 2021 /people /sustainable
Farah Miller CEO at Helixtap Technologies
Change Opaque Markets – focus on agri-commodities The lack of transparency is an infamous issue in the commodities market because it creates an inherent inability to accurately price risk. This issue is particularly pervasive in the agricultural commodities sector, such as natural rubber where supply chains start with remote smallholders numberin...
15 July 2021 /sustainable /inclusion Financial Supply Chain
Carl Wegner CEO at Contour
Whether environmental, social or economic, the sustainability challenges at the heart of trade often seem insurmountable in this global, sprawling industry. Recent research suggests 92% of CEOs believe the integration of sustainability will be important to the future success of businesses – but only 48% say they are actually implementing sustaina...
13 July 2021 /sustainable /inclusion
Lukas Lutz Head of Global Business Development - Industry at GFT
Climate protection, resource efficiency, rising energy costs, new supply models and strict environmental regulations – energy is now a key competitive factor. Shifting to carbon neutrality in a competitive business environment requires a great deal of effort and a strong will to undergo transformation – especially in manufacturing, which accounts ...
13 July 2021 /sustainable
ESG investing is gaining momentum but how do fund managers and investment firms rapidly evolve to make it an integral part of how they do business? The climate crisis, corporate mismanagement, COVID-19, social justice movements – each in their own right have had a significant impact on how we perceive business value and business purpose. Combined, ...
05 July 2021 /sustainable /markets Trends in Financial Services
Tejasvi Addagada Enterprise Data Head at Fortune 500 financial service provider
Clean Data is a crucial need to get an outcome from Machine Learning models. Often much time to the tune of 40% is spent on understanding and cleaning data before modeling and providing an outcome. Scale and diversity in data is also another important aspect while planning for a model. How accurate is the data to give a usable outcome – is a major ...
04 July 2021 /sustainable /predictions Data Management and Governance
Paul Christensen CEO at Previse
Commitment to ‘environmental’, ‘social justice’ and ‘corporate governance’ (ESG) criteria is fast emerging as the touchstone of good practice in the business world. In fact, almost half of FTSE 100 companies have linked executive pay to environment, social or governance targets, as investors’ and stakeholders’ demands for companies to adopt these ...
28 June 2021 /payments /sustainable Fintech
Richard Blore Chief Executive Officer, KY3P, IHS Markit at IHS Markit
Social and Governance in the supply chain The focus on non-financial, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data and metrics continues to increase across all industries and regions. Both public and private companies are under increasing pressure from investors, civil society and governments to make ambitious public commitments covering all as...
11 June 2021 /regulation /sustainable Financial Supply Chain
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