47 Results from 2021, /sustainable
Retired Member
ESG investing is gaining momentum but how do fund managers and investment firms rapidly evolve to make it an integral part of how they do business? The climate crisis, corporate mismanagement, COVID-19, social justice movements – each in their own right have had a significant impact on how we perceive business value and business purpose. Combined, ...
05 July 2021 /sustainable /markets Trends in Financial Services
Tejasvi Addagada Enterprise Data Head at Fortune 500 financial service provider
Clean Data is a crucial need to get an outcome from Machine Learning models. Often much time to the tune of 40% is spent on understanding and cleaning data before modeling and providing an outcome. Scale and diversity in data is also another important aspect while planning for a model. How accurate is the data to give a usable outcome – is a major ...
04 July 2021 /sustainable /predictions Data Management and Governance
Paul Christensen CEO at Previse
Commitment to ‘environmental’, ‘social justice’ and ‘corporate governance’ (ESG) criteria is fast emerging as the touchstone of good practice in the business world. In fact, almost half of FTSE 100 companies have linked executive pay to environment, social or governance targets, as investors’ and stakeholders’ demands for companies to adopt these ...
28 June 2021 /payments /sustainable Fintech
Richard Blore Chief Executive Officer, KY3P, IHS Markit at IHS Markit
Social and Governance in the supply chain The focus on non-financial, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data and metrics continues to increase across all industries and regions. Both public and private companies are under increasing pressure from investors, civil society and governments to make ambitious public commitments covering all as...
11 June 2021 /regulation /sustainable Financial Supply Chain
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
The seriousness with which insurers take Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. As both investors and underwriters, insurers occupy a central role in the global economy that gives them significant influence over the business activities of others. With the increasing risks associated ...
04 June 2021 /regulation /sustainable Financial Risk Management
It’s undeniable that the pandemic has been especially hard on small to medium enterprises, or SMEs. While multinational corporations like Amazon and Tesla have grown astronomically over the pandemic, small disruptions, like late payments on invoices which are typically survivable in normal times, are causing many SMEs to go out of business. Althou...
31 May 2021 /sustainable /inclusion Financial Supply Chain
Adrian Pollard Trader and Crypto Enthusiast at ISTANEX
Despite the digital nature of Bitcoin, the process of mining requires a massive physical infrastructure to support it. How mining works is explained extensively here but simply put, miners are searching/mining for a lucky number and upon finding that number the miner gets freshly minted bitcoin as rewards for their work. This search for the lucky
21 May 2021 /sustainable /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Agriculture is often Fintech’s forgotten cousin behind consumer and business sectors. While also known as Agritech, ‘Fintech within agriculture’ relates specifically to the discipline of financial technology for agriculture businesses. The industry has undergone significant and much needed financial innovation in recent years. Thanks, in no small
21 May 2021 /sustainable /startups Fintech innovation and startups
On the path to global net zero carbon emissions, the finance industry is a key driver while technology is an enabler of sustainability. To make meaningful progress to mitigate climate change, the global finance industry needs technology to mobilize investments and quantify climate risk. Financiers also must adopt collaborative, secure and trusted ...
05 May 2021 /sustainable Going green
Peter Davidson Business Consultant at Self Employed
The effects of climate change and the environmental crises we are moving towards seem to be making the news more than ever before. The actions of activists like Greta Thunberg, amongst others, have successfully mobilized younger generations to take a more active stance in order to safeguard the quality of their future. Sustainability is at the foc...
23 April 2021 /sustainable Climate Fintech
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