34 Results from 2020, /sustainable
Domile And Sustainable Finance, Impact Investing at Cyan Reef
ESG awareness has been growing slowly in the past decade, however in the past couple of years there has been a significant shift in the uptake of ESG investing, talks about the ESG philosophies and companies’ fiduciary duty to adopt ESG principles. There is still much more to be done and achieved, but today there is already a wider focus on ESG, ad...
22 December 2020 /sustainable /covid-19 Financial Risk Management
Darshna Shah Lead Data Scientist at Elastacloud
A marked change in atmospheric carbon has always been incompatible with Earth’s stability, and has been a feature of all 5 mass extinctions. In previous events in has taken volcanic activity up to one million years to increase atmospheric carbon to cause a catastrophe, but an extremely fast and energy-thirsty growth has led to similar events occur...
01 December 2020 /sustainable Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Sophie Dionnet VP Strategy at Dataiku
With a total shutdown of certain sectors of activity, it was not surprising that in June, leading economic forecaster EY Item Club predicted that GDP would shrink by 8% this year. Though the drop was not as dramatic as expected, the Office for National Statistics reported that GDP in June was still a sixth below its level in February, before the v...
24 November 2020 /wholesale /sustainable Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Chandan Goel Manager-Data Engineering at PublicisSapient
Background and Motive Data predominantly is core to any and every organisation and so does Data Engineering. Especially in financial/banking industry where data’s availability and its fast processing in timely manner is even more important, from different perspective like customer retention, decision-making and regulatory requirements too. An ask ...
19 November 2020 /retail /sustainable BANKING banking on BIGDATA
Farah Miller CEO at Helixtap Technologies
Investing in ESG Investment decisions based on ESG criteria are growing and for an increasing number of asset managers, ESG inclusion in their decision-making is ever more apparent, as they see this focus as return-enhancing and risk-mitigating. Sustainability-focused funds continue to attract more capital. For example, CNBC (2020) referenced a st...
11 November 2020 /sustainable /markets Sustainable compliance
Michael Boukadakis CEO at ENACOMM
In the first half of 2020, $2 trillion in cash landed in deposit accounts of U.S. banks and credit unions, according to FDIC data. From corporate borrowing to cash-hoarding and stimulus checks, the unprecedented surge was a result of the pandemic. Megabanks saw the greatest deposit gains—they have the most U.S. retail customers, after all, and serv...
06 October 2020 /retail /sustainable Disruption in Retail Banking
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
Japan’s “Society 5.0” refers to the fifth stride in human civilization evolution to create a “super-smart” future society which leverages the technological innovations of the current fourth industrial revolution (4IR) to achieve economic advancement and embed these in society to solve people’s problems so that they can live better lives. And Digit...
28 September 2020 /sustainable /inclusion Bigger than Technology
Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO
The spectral technologies in mid of 2030s such as THz communication, molecular communication and quantum communication will dramatically improve the data rate. The blockchain will become an important part of a 6G society using smart devices of all of multimedia data, The 6G new paradigm in the sustainable future will shift intelligent materials. Cy...
11 September 2020 /sustainable /crime Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Adrian Sargent Founder and Managing Director at ESG Treasury Ltd
All you may have already seen the Finextra article with reference to Green RWA Asssocation, the theory ids bansk need to hold capital for all risks, therefore our paper proposes a methodology to allocate captial for climate change risks. Read the article here: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/36527/maths-for-esg-how-one-calculation-could-ign...
09 September 2020 /regulation /sustainable Banking Regulations
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
This blog is the last article in a series of 3 blogs on how climate issues can be solved through a worldwide roll-out of technological innovations. This last blog focuses on how the IT/Tech sector can help in facilitating the transition towards climate neutrality. Just like the Financial Services sector (see blog 2 - https://bankloch.blogspot.com/...
07 September 2020 /sustainable Sustainable compliance
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