262 Results from /sustainable
Retired Member
The Coronavirus economic crisis is putting already financially distressed households in much greater distress. It als presents an enormous challenge for nonprofits and government agencies that must immediately transition from financial guidance to what is essentially complex disaster relief services at huge scale - while also having shut down thei...
31 March 2020 /sustainable /inclusion Financial Inclusion
As banks think about applying machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, they have to remember that they have a responsibility towards their customers and society - all of this in a manner that's transparent and traceable. Banks are also answerable to their regulators, though regulations on technologies like AI is not in par wi...
31 March 2020 /sustainable /identity Trends in Financial Services
Anjani Kumar Principal Consultant - FS Risk & Compliance at Infosys Limited
"If you really think that the environment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money." – Dr. Guy R. McPherson (award-winning scientist, professor emeritus at University of Arizona, and world’s leading authority on climate change) Climate change has become the key global challenge of our times, ...
16 March 2020 /sustainable Financial Risk Management
Aurélie L'hostis Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
There’s no better time than the start of a new decade to take a retrospective look at the past and reflect on what has changed and what hasn’t. Looking back, the evidence is clear. Not only has the 2008 global financial crisis exacerbated economic inequality, it has also caused a massive reputational damage to the financial services industry. And y...
10 March 2020 /retail /sustainable Trends in Financial Services
Ravishankar Poonjolai Consulting Partner at TCS
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investment has gained traction in recent times with growing patronage from institutional as well as millennial high net worth investors. ESG investments were pegged at $20 trillion in AUM in 2018, according to a Forbes article. Socially and environmentally aware millennial investors, with a pulse on key ...
06 March 2020 /sustainable Innovation in Financial Services
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
In recent years, the usage of the term "Financial Inclusion" has risen exponentially. As with any buzzword, it is used and misused by many companies to boost their corporate image and get support from different governments (e.g. subsidies). As with so many buzzwords, the term has become so much overloaded, that it now encompasses a wide ...
10 February 2020 /sustainable /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Climate change, environment, pollution - all seem to be catch phrases now more than ever. Abbreviations such as SDG or the ESG gap are all over the internet and news. Even Davos, the world economic forum, had a very strong theme – climate change. By now almost everyone should be familiar with Greta Thunberg. Her activism and her straight to the po...
07 February 2020 /wealth /sustainable Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
2019 was not - mildly speaking - the best of recent years. Global warming - also manifested by ongoing horrible fires in Australia - advanced, democracy was weakened in many western countries by irresponsible populists, the vision of a globally strong single market Europe took a setback with Brexit and Russian military agression and persecution of...
01 January 2020 /sustainable After hours
Richard Peers Founder at ResponsibleRisk Ltd
One of my favourite events of the year is the CIO Summit organised by Johnny Spragg at CMC. I like it because it's very participative. Everyone attending gets deeply engaged in the different topics At the opening of the most recent summit, the ice breaker was an Oxford Union style debate. The topic of the day was that banks need to change to surviv...
30 December 2019 /sustainable Going green
Ron Cogburn CEO at Exela Technologies
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell This is a reprint from my recent article for Forbes Tech Council Every software platform, piece of hardware and back-end system developed at my company has required coordination between tech development groups spread across the world. Our primary hubs are lo...
13 December 2019 /sustainable Fintech
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