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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.

10 October 2023

News/sustainable

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.’

10 October 2023

Research/Artificial intelligenceFuture of Report

The Future of ESGTech 2024

10 October 2023 432 downloads

News/people

The rise of the theme-based super app

Elon Musk's ambition to turn X into a WeChat-like everything app is doomed, predicts the man building his own "theme-based" super app, called Super.com.

06 October 2023

News/cloud

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft cloud duopoly to be investigated by Ofcom

Historically, it could be argued that financial institutions were beholden to pick between AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure for all workloads due to availability, but with other smaller cloud providers offering private cloud fabrics, financial organisations are considering hybrid or multicloud options. However, Ofcom has an alternative view.

06 October 2023

Finextra TV/Sibos

Unlocking the Power of Generative AI in Financial Services

At Sibos 2023, Kanika Hope, Chief Strategy Officer, Temenos, and Tyler Pichach, Executive Director, Global Business Solutions, Microsoft, discuss how generative AI will impact banks, transforming operations and value propositions, and the role of cloud technology in enabling embedded finance.

05 October 2023

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live sneak peek: Finastra’s Chirine Ben Zaied

As Sustainable Finance Live 2023 approaches on 10 October at Events@No6 London, Finextra spoke to a few speakers to provide attendees with an insight into what’s to come. This week we spoke with Chirine Ben Zaied, head of innovation at Finastra who will be mentoring the hackathon participants, which is taking place ahead of and during the conference.

04 October 2023

News/retail

UOB trials Microsoft 365 Copilot generative AI tool

Singapore-based bank UOB is set to trial Microsoft 365 Copilot, a generative AI-powered productivity tool, with several hundred employees.

04 October 2023

News/payments

Visa creates $100 million generative AI venture fund

Visa has opened a $100 million warchest to invest in companies harnessing generative AI technologies and applications for commerce and payments.

03 October 2023

News/people

AI could lead to 3 1/2 day work week, predicts Jamie Dimon

JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon says that while AI might lead to job loses it could also help to usher in a three-a-half day work week.

03 October 2023

News/devops

AI race heats up between France and UK

Xavier Niel, French billionaire and chairman of the Iliad group, has announced his intention to host an AI conference in Paris in November, the same month as Britain’s AI Safety Summit.

29 September 2023