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The future of ESGtech: Goal 5 - Gender equality

The future of ESGtech: Goal 5 - Gender equality

Hamish Monk
21 Dec 2021

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. This is an extract from Finextra's The Fut...

Innovation in service: Supercharging Jersey’s sustainable finance offering

Innovation in service: Supercharging Jersey’s sustainable finance offering

Hamish Monk
13 Dec 2021

Keen to meet growing investor demands for transparency on the impact of their portfolios, private we...

The future of wealth management: Benefits of innovation and digitisation

The future of wealth management: Benefits of innovation and digitisation

Hamish Monk
01 Dec 2021

This is an excerpt from Finextra's Research report 'The Future of Wealth Management 2022,' and is a...

Fixing finance from the ground up: The fight for afforestation

Fixing finance from the ground up: The fight for afforestation

Hamish Monk
29 Nov 2021

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest just hit its highest level in over 15 years, despite Brazil ...

Busting sustainable finance myths: Why Tariq Fancy is only half right on ESG, part 2

Busting sustainable finance myths: Why Tariq Fancy is only half right on ESG, part 2

Hamish Monk
16 Nov 2021

Blackrock’s former sustainable investing chief, Tariq Fancy, has made nine key claims against the e...

Busting sustainable finance myths: Why Tariq Fancy is only half right on ESG

Busting sustainable finance myths: Why Tariq Fancy is only half right on ESG

Hamish Monk
01 Nov 2021

A controversial series of articles criticising the asset management industry’s approach to sustainab...

Women’s Equality Day: Working toward gender parity in financial services

Women’s Equality Day: Working toward gender parity in financial services

Hamish Monk
26 Aug 2021

It is Women’s Equality Day today – and over two years since the publication of the UK government’s l...

Curbing the cost of payment failures with straight through processing

Curbing the cost of payment failures with straight through processing

Hamish Monk
20 Aug 2021

Automating high volumes of transactions across different geographies and jurisdictions is yet to be ...

The future of NFTs: Democratising space and digitising endangered species

The future of NFTs: Democratising space and digitising endangered species

Hamish Monk
17 Aug 2021

Earlier this year, the non-fungible token (NFT) bubble had swollen to colossal proportions. With th...

The IPCC climate change report: How is the fintech community responding?

The IPCC climate change report: How is the fintech community responding?

Hamish Monk
10 Aug 2021

A ‘code red for humanity’ has been declared, in the form of the first major review of climate change...

Demystifying the role of the fintech CIO

Demystifying the role of the fintech CIO

Hamish Monk
14 Jul 2021

This series of articles looks to demystify the various C-level roles within fintech companies today ...

Demystifying the role of the fintech CFO

Demystifying the role of the fintech CFO

Hamish Monk
09 Jul 2021

This series of articles looks to demystify the various C-level roles within fintech companies today ...