255 Results from /sustainable
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
Retired Member
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
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
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
The new decade demands a more focused outlook to building economic moats. Up until a time, ‘product and pricing innovation’ were the popular means of differentiation and competitive advantage among the banking institutions. Once that became mainstream, the then-innovative banks turned to technology for improved efficiency and optimized operations....
21 May 2020 /wholesale /sustainable Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Banks today are looking beyond ‘product and pricing innovation’ for differentiation and competitive advantage. The new aspiration is to champion the trifecta of Customer Experience (CX), Omnichannel engagement and a Platform business model. Technology has a vital role to play in building each one of these economic moats. Banks recognize this fact a...
21 May 2020 /sustainable Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS
In the banking industry, the core system contains vital records for the business. It is the beating heart of the operation, so its “life expectancy” had better be built for the long haul. McKinsey estimates that about 70% of banks are reviewing their core platform to enable real-time processing and remain relevant in a digital world – but with the...
23 April 2020 /retail /sustainable Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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