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Hirander Misra

Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group

Advancing Sustainable Finance in Thailand: Opportunities and Challenges

Thailand is poised to make significant strides in sustainability by leveraging its renewable energy resources, carbon credit markets, and digital innovations. With the global push towards decarbonisation and climate resilience, the country has the potential to lead the region in green energy and climate finance solutions. The convergence of renewa...

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Vishnu Prasad R

Vishnu Prasad R Lead Enterprise Architect at Tata Consultancy Services

Greening the Blueprint: Transforming Enterprise Architecture for a Sustainable Future

In the past two years, I have focused on reshaping Enterprise Architecture (EA) through a sustainability-first approach. My work has accelerated business transformation by embedding green architecture principles into EA strategies while promoting environmental stewardship. From developing frameworks for green budgeting to driving eco-conscious arc

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Mathias Wikstrom

Mathias Wikstrom CEO and Co-founder at Doconomy

How banks can drive financial and environmental transformation

The climate crisis is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Just last month, the UN 2024 Emissions Gap Report revealed that our opportunity to limit global warming to the safer target set out under the Paris Agreement (1.5C) will be almost impossible if we do not make significant changes. Given this backdrop - alongside the daily reports of d...

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Kathiravan Rajendran

Kathiravan Rajendran Associate Director of Marketing Operations at Macro Global

How Liquidity Pools Transform Cross-Border Payments? An Analysis

Cross-border payments are the backbone of international trade, global remittances, and financial connectivity. Yet, traditional systems often face challenges like high transaction fees, delays, and inefficiencies caused by intermediary banks and multiple currency conversions. The introduction of liquidity pools is transforming this landscape, offe...

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Unlocking the Potential: Exploring Property for Investment in Thailand and its Impact on Investment

Exploring Property for Investment in Thailand and its Impact on Investment Trends Thailand has emerged as a hotspot for real estate investments, attracting global investors with its dynamic market and lucrative opportunities. From beachfront properties to urban developments, the Thai property market offers diverse options for portfolio growth. Wit...

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Event Report

Sustainable Finance Live – Natural Capital Finance

A Record from the Sustainable Finance Live Conference and Hackathon 2024  On 8 October 2024, Finextra Research and ResponsibleRisk held the annual Sustainable Finance Live hybrid conference and hackathon, in partnership with NayaOne.  The conference took place at Events@ No6 in London, and started off with a welcome from founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor for Finextra, Richard Peers. Peers opened with an introduction outlining the themes and objectives of this year’s event: to understand natural capital risk, pricing, and trade.  The focus areas of the conference were natural capital, agriculture, supply chains, as well as regulation and reporting. The sessions also highlighted highlighting new technologies that are being used to collect nature-related data such as Earth observation and satellite reporting.  Richard Peers, contributing editor at Finextra and founder of ResponsibleRisk, moderated the conference: “What we wanted to do is to put on an event aimed at explaining the landscape of a natural capital transaction, with the associated data providers identified along the way. Ending the process in an asset management trading platform, taking into consideration all the steps that a regulated entity has to undertake, to prove to the financial industry that this can be an asset class, that is as tradable as any other.”  Download a Visual Record of the event below to discover key themes of the event’s panels, keynotes, and hackathon. We cover:  Natural capital trading from field to trade;  How nature financing can be achieved;  The role of data, economic profit, and policy for natural capital;  How to build a sustainable ecosystem using natural value;  Visions and results from the hackathon;  And more. 

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The Future of UK Fintech - 2015-2035

An IFGS Special Edition UK Fintech Week 2024 With UK Fintech Week's flagship event - Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS) - returning for its 10th anniversary, Finextra and Innovate Finance have partnered to publish this report, which acts as your go-to-guide to everything you need to know about financial services and technology in the UK. ‘The Future of UK Fintech: 2015 – 2035: An IFGS Special Edition’ includes commentary from the brightest and best across the fintech ecosystem, discussing and debating the crucial issues facing the sector now and in years to come. This includes key insights from industry experts from Cogo, EY, Konsentus, Marqeta, Standard Chartered Ventures, and Zopa Bank. Scoping out the next decade to come, this report explores the agenda topics below and more: The Next Decade of FS and Innovation: What Lies Ahead Fintech Beyond FS Borders: How Fintech is Impacting other Industries and Sectors UK and the World: Keeping our Crown while Learning from Others Transformative Technologies: Opportunities and Risks Users of Tomorrow: The Next Generation of Consumers The Shifting Ecosystem: Who Will Lead?

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Event Report

Cloud innovation paves path to the future

An open banking platform has the power to transform a bank, whether the bank is looking to modernise using technology on-premise, in the cloud or as Software-asa-Service (SaaS). In turn, banks gain access to endless opportunities to engage with customers and scale for massive demand. This event report, in association with Temenos, highlights the key takeaways from Temenos Community Forum 2023 that took place in Vienna, Austria. Bringing industry experts and partners together to explore new opportunities opened up by emerging technologies and the cloud, this year’s overarching event theme was ‘Engage and Grow in a Cloud World’. In this report, we explore the different ways that the cloud is accelerating transformation in the industry, including: Why banks are being disrupted by BaaS and embedded finance services; How agility, innovation, and customer experience are gaining momentum on the cloud; How to build resilient cloud infrastructure for sustainability; And more.

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Why Biodiversity is Mainstream for Financial Services Now

Join FinextraTV as Anita de Horde, co-founder and executive director, Finance for Biodiversity Foundation, discusses COP16 in comparison to the momentum gained after COP15, which was the first biodiversity conference that saw hundreds of financial services professionals attending and in turn, showcasing how influential biodiversity is becoming when industries consider standards, measurements, and solutions. The conversation also covered some of the failures from COP16, where funding that is being sought to address nature issues could not be agreed between the Global North and the Global South, and resource mobilisation and strategy also remained unfortunately stagnant.

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Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

What the EU deforestation law delay means for fintech

The EU deforestation law was proposed in June 2023 to propel environmental efforts by curbing logging and deforestation practices in nations that export to the EU. The legislation was a move towards reducing EU consumers’ impact on global deforestation, however it saw pushback from multiple nations. What is the EU deforestation law? The law would ...

Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Fracking hell: What Trump’s second presidency means for green initiatives

After a whirlwind election that saw the US map run red earlier this month, Donald Trump has been elected as the 47th US president. With a Republican majority in the Senate and House of Representatives, it is expected that sustainable ambitions and green initiatives will be taking a backseat (to say it lightly) for the next four years. While Democra...

Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

How sustainable finance powers community projects

Two sessions at the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) annual conference in Nashville - among several others covering various subsets of the discipline - offered practical and promising insights into the continuing growth of sustainable finance in the corporate and consumer arenas. One involved the Canadian/global bank CIBC and two of i...