255 Results from /sustainable
Nish Kotecha Co-Founder & Chairman at Finboot
Passports provide a licence to travel while also providing security – an established international recognition of proving identity and accompanying a ticket to ride. Passports have also come back into conversations in the last few months through vaccine passports. Covid-19 has forced the imposition of restrictions on our ability to move from one co...
29 September 2021 /regulation /sustainable Blockchain Observations
Kartik Swaminathan Author - 3F: Future Fintech Framework & Founder at Fintastech (Fintech Consulting & Coaching)
While we have seen phenomenal growth in the BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) segment in recent past, and I have already done a post on BNPL stating how the product is digital native, helping to expand the market and improve conversions for merchants too. So, while we have BNPL, my take is why not also have PNBL – Pay Now Buy Later. While BNPL is Lending &#...
10 September 2021 /payments /sustainable Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
Over the past three years the Open Banking movement has quietly gathered pace in the UK. Without realising it, many people are now benefiting from new products and processes that have been enabled by Open Banking’s free flow of financial data. Each month brings new use cases that range from incremental user experience improvements - such as easing...
13 August 2021 /sustainable /inclusion Open Banking
Praveen Sharma Head, Banking and Financial Services Practice-N.A at Virtusa
In 2015, the United Nations Member States released the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focused on key areas affecting the planet. These SDGs have had a very profound impact on the banking and finance sector, launching sustainable finance initiatives and forever changing the mandates for chief information officers (CIO). At a high level, ...
04 August 2021 /sustainable Going green
Yahya Mohamed Mao Head of Business Development & Marketing at Swiss GRC
The constant and ubiquitous transfer of data from various sources to a single government entity has led to concerns that these sources could turn into electronic panoptics as governments use data-driven technologies to maximize effective surveillance of their citizens. Smart City technologies have been developed with practical applications to impr...
02 August 2021 /sustainable /predictions Going green
Leadership and business dilemmas teaching finance under the new light of sustainability According to the best-selling book Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World, “traditional finance may be the single biggest stumbling block to reimagining capitalism.” This can generate an ethical dilemma for somebody like Prof. Carlos Casanuev...
26 July 2021 /sustainable Finance 2.0
Kas Mohammed VP Digital Energy at Schneider Electric
The art of a good finance team is knowing when costs need to expand to support growth and spotting opportunities to streamline outgoings and improve efficiency. Typically, this revolves around the company’s greatest asset – its talent. Assessing pay, incentivising performance, ensuring KPIs are met, and managing expenditure are at the core of the ...
16 July 2021 /people /sustainable
Farah Miller CEO at Helixtap Technologies
Change Opaque Markets – focus on agri-commodities The lack of transparency is an infamous issue in the commodities market because it creates an inherent inability to accurately price risk. This issue is particularly pervasive in the agricultural commodities sector, such as natural rubber where supply chains start with remote smallholders numberin...
15 July 2021 /sustainable /inclusion Financial Supply Chain
Carl Wegner CEO at Contour
Whether environmental, social or economic, the sustainability challenges at the heart of trade often seem insurmountable in this global, sprawling industry. Recent research suggests 92% of CEOs believe the integration of sustainability will be important to the future success of businesses – but only 48% say they are actually implementing sustaina...
13 July 2021 /sustainable /inclusion
Lukas Lutz Head of Global Business Development - Industry at GFT
Climate protection, resource efficiency, rising energy costs, new supply models and strict environmental regulations – energy is now a key competitive factor. Shifting to carbon neutrality in a competitive business environment requires a great deal of effort and a strong will to undergo transformation – especially in manufacturing, which accounts ...
13 July 2021 /sustainable
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