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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

TCFD and the IPCC report: Are we still missing a piece of the net-zero puzzle?

It has been a busy week for the world of sustainable finance. The working group three report, as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s sixth assessment, was released – which explores viable options for robust carbon removal, and stresses the importance of carbon pricing. On top of this, as of 6th April, over 1,300 of the l...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

For and against a four-day work week: How will the financial sector fare?

British economist, John Maynard Keynes, predicted in 1930 that successive generations would enjoy more free time than his generation could possibly imagine. Even the basic concept of the weekend – brought about by the gruelling working conditions of the Industrial Revolution – was relatively new to the UK when Keynes was born. Today, thanks to in...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

From DevOps to NoOps: Are engineers’ jobs in jeopardy?

In 2018, Microsoft Israel’s chief scientist, Tomer Simon, wrote an article titled, ‘Stop DevOps Before Someone Gets Hurt’. In it, he urged engineers to bypass DevOps and jump straight into ‘NoOps’. Irrespective of the merits of this approach, the most illuminating part of Simon’s recommendation is to figure the DevOps environment as a continuum – ...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

How should UK FMPs remain compliant with 2022 sustainability regulations?

With the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation’s (SFDR) first reference period just around the corner, asset managers, banks and fund brokers are working closely with their underlying companies to report on their environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact. Given the vast amount of information and new data points that must be sourced to ...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

International Women’s Day: Addressing gender bias in AI

One of the key missions of International Women’s Day 2022 is to celebrate digital advancement and champion the women spearheading innovation. With every development, however, it is important to ensure gender equity is baked into the system. While bias may be a fact of life, it doesn’t need to become a feature of our technologies too; #BreaktheBias...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

How is the Russia-Ukraine war impacting the financial and tech sectors?

With sanctions from the European Union, Switzerland, France, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, ratcheting up on the Russian Federation, economic shockwaves are being felt by industries far and wide. Already, the global economy is gasping for air; energy and oil prices are climbing, shares are tumblin...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

The Future of ESGTech: Goal 16 - Peace, justice and strong institutions

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus target 16.4: By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the re...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

The Future of ESGTech: Goal 15 - Life on land

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Like many other SDG topics, the issue of biodiversity and ecosystem preservation is far-r...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

4 ways fintech can halt environmental degradation

Responsible investing is becoming a top industry priority. By incorporating physical and transitional risks into capital allocation decisions, not only can long-term economic resilience be fostered, but the natural assets we rely on for ecosystem services – such as biodiversity – can be preserved. Unfortunately, the industry has not yet reached th...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

The Green Fintech Taxonomy: an industry response

On 29th November 2021, the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA) and the Swiss Green Fintech network unveiled the world’s first green fintech taxonomy. By issuing a classification, the GDFA intended to further stimulate the green fintech market – giving policy makers, investors, and other market actors access to the firms more easily. The taxonomy...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

Chaos engineering: The art of failing gracefully

A foray into the world of DevOps would be incomplete without a pitstop at chaos engineering, or – as Bola Rotibi, research director, software development and delivery, CCS Insight, calls it – the art of failing gracefully. So, what is it, how does it work, and why should financial institutions care about this apocalyptic-sounding, computer enginee...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

The Future of ESGTech: Goal 13 - Climate action

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus target 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries. According to the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (I...

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