34 Results from 2020, /sustainable
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Disclaimer: this blog is not directly associated to the financial services and Fintech sector, but as it forms an introduction to a 2nd and 3rd blog, which are indeed related to these sector, I have published this blog nonetheless also on the Finextra platform. My apologies to people considering that this blog is off-topic for this platform. The...
23 August 2020 /sustainable Sustainable compliance
Retired Member
Financial products have a reputation for being difficult to understand when it comes to both terminology and functionality for everyday consumers. Customers often have to deal with an abundance of arcane jargon and long, convoluted application processes. One of the key goals of fintech has been to broaden access to financial products by increasing...
05 August 2020 /sustainable /devops API
Tim Duncan Founder/CEO at FinTechCommons.org
The Covid-19 health and economic crisis has expanded and accelerated our adoption of technology at a rate never seen before. We are finding ourselves in a place that might otherwise have taken years to get to and are just starting to become aware of the implications. The crisis is also showing us that while technology can move us forward in lea
04 August 2020 /sustainable /inclusion Inclusive FinTech
Junta Nakai Global Industry Leader - Financial Services at Databricks
ESG is a Data and AI problem The benefits of incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) within business targets are well understood by companies and regulators, and especially investors. Research shows a quarter of all fund investors planned to increase holdings in the sustainable sector over the next half year. Organisations lookin...
04 August 2020 /sustainable /cloud Big Data
Tejasvi Addagada Enterprise Data Head at Fortune 500 financial service provider
As Banks and Insurance firms have already embraced Data Lakes for their Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning capabilities, it is important to look for continuous Return on Investment on the platform. If a Data Lake is not well maintained, it can turn into a swamp while finding usable data can confuse the data consumers. Most challenges can ...
26 July 2020 /sustainable /devops Analytics in Banking
Quantitative easing (QE) programs, i.e. purchase of bonds by Central Banks, have been used to inject liquidity in the economy. Yet studies show that less than 10% of generated liquidity by investors effectively reaches ‘the real economy’. QE programs have created massive liquidity, deposited at Banks. The bottleneck Banks have a structural cap to f...
29 June 2020 /sustainable /covid-19 Finance 2.0
James Gannaway Head of Financial Services at Board International
The Bank of England (BoE) is postponing its climate stress tests, which have been previously well regarded as a ground-breaking initiative to enable in-depth analysis of the impact of global warming on business models and operations of both banks and insurers. The bank’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Policy committee in a ...
24 June 2020 /regulation /sustainable
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an unprecedented economic contraction, hitting SMEs first due to their structurally limited solvency. Banks, even when backed up by State guarantee, are unable to provide new credit lines. SMEs and their personnel are the first victims. States are expected to facilitate the economic recovery. However State budg...
23 June 2020 /sustainable /covid-19 Treasury Management
With the word "tech" in Fintech, there is automatically a strong focus on technology in this sector. As a result, we tend to think that the biggest cost of a Fintech company is in building and maintaining the underlying software (tech) solution. In some bottom-up organized firms, which are usually built on top of an open-source core produ...
03 June 2020 /sustainable /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Adrian Sargent Founder and Managing Director at ESG Treasury Ltd
Why care about sustainable finance? ‘Sustainable’ is a buzzword right now: but why pay attention and what is all the fuss about? If you are a treasurer who aspires to make corporate life socially and morally responsible, whilst also being at the heart of a capitalist machine, then sustainable finance is the opportunity to make a difference. As the ...
01 June 2020 /sustainable Treasury Management
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