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Sustainable Finance Live 2023: Hackathon Winners announced

We Succeed Together and Team Thrive have been announced as the winners of the Sustainable Finance Live 2023 hackathon, which took place 2 - 13 October 2023 alongside the conference, in partnership with NayaOne.

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UBS funds Swiss Open Quantum Institute in bid to achieve UN sustainability goals

UBS has joined forces with Cern, the Swiss Government and non-profit foundation Gesda to fund experiments in quantum computing aimed at achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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EVO Banco taps AI and Google Maps to show customers transaction locations

Spanish digital bank EVO Banco has launched a geolocation service for card purchases that uses AI and Google Maps to show customers the exact time and place where their transactions took place.

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Sustainable Finance Live 2023: Connecting capital with the right sustainability solutions

Bursting on stage to lead the final panel session of the day, Anna-Marie Slot, global sustainability partner, Ashurst, outlined her hopes for a “rubber hits the road” panel. Getting straight to the crux of the matter, Slot asked the panel, how much money actually has to move to ensure impact?

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Sustainable Finance Live 2023: UK Infrastructure Bank to play a key role in HS2 replacement

“We expect to play a very meaningful role in making sure projects get delivered,” said John Flint, chief executive, UK Infrastructure Bank, regarding the role the bank will have in the HS2 replacement plans in the North of England.

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Sustainable Finance Live 2023: Green energy transition can be driven by demand

“We are told consistently by financial leaders that trillions of dollars of capital are committed to transforming economies cities, etc. to achieve net zero, yet many of you have noticed that the despite the large amounts quoted the flow appears to be a trickle,” said Simon Perham, head investor outreach Europe, at Carbon Tracker, who moderated the first panel of the day at Sustainable Finance Live 2023.

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Sustainable Finance Live 2023: Democratising geospatial data and informing AI usage

In the keynote and Q&A session, ‘What is the role of AI in sustainable finance as we consider the role of satellite based geospatial data in city design?’, speaker Donna Lyndsay, strategic market lead environment and sustainability at Ordnance Survey, explored the use of data analytics and geospatial technology in green urban planning.

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Sustainable Finance Live 2023: The bank’s role in financing sustainable cities

Moving swiftly to the interactive workshop, the session Sustainable Finance Live is known for was hailed as being a rapid cocreation opportunity for attendees and where ideas became reality in just an hour.

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Sustainable Finance Live 2023: Bring everyone to the party for decarbonisation

Leading the SustainableFinance.Live's 2023 keynote session, Roxana Slavcheva, global lead for the built environment, World Resources Institute (WRI), dove right in to her session titled the ‘Role of AI in Decarbonising the Built Environment: An Urban Policy Perspective.’

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Which? puts six UK banks on 'red' alert list over fossil fuel investments

Some of the UK’s biggest high-street banks have been put in a 'red' warning category based on new analysis of their fossil fuel investments and green policies.

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Sustainable Finance Live 2023: How to move fast and break things to disrupt the inertia

Kicking off Sustainable Finance Live 2023 at Events@no6 in London, founder of ResponsibleRisk Richard Peers, highlighted the objective of this year’s event, to bring people together in their likeminded desire to drive sustainability in their work.

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SEB draws attention to carbon removal market and nature-related risk

Sustainable finance is a swiftly growing industry, with new innovations arising rapidly from all over the world. In conversation with an author of SEB’s Green Bond Report, Finextra considered the latest advancements in the sustainability sector leading up to our annual Sustainable Finance Live conference.