Latest Sustainable News: Finextra Research

Goldman Sachs joins Open Source climate data initiative

Goldman Sachs has joined OS-Climate, a cross-industry initiative hosted by the Linux Foundation that is seeking to shift global investment toward zero-carbon emissions through the development of comprehensive Open Source data sets and evaluation tools.

04 February 2021

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Rabobank tackles CO2 challenge by connecting corporates and farmers

Rabobank has unveiled an online platform that connects large corporates looking to offset their emissions with smallholder farmers in developing countries who are sequestering carbon through agroforestry.

02 February 2021

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Deutsche Bank spinoff IMP+ACT Alliance partners with UNDP

IMP+ACT Alliance has announced its partnership with the United Development Programme (UNDP) to provide investors with digital guidance on engaging with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

29 January 2021

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Elastacloud runs hackathon to devise sustainable finance solutions

The first Sustainable Finance hackathon run by data science specialists Elastacloud in association with Finextra and Responsible Risk, took place on 16 and 17 January bringing together 38 professionals from the finance and technology sectors.

29 January 2021

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Davos 2021: Carney on net-zero – ‘If you’re not in, you’re out’

Finextra is at Davos this year, covering global insights into the impact fintech has on wider issues such as responding to Covid-19, restoring economic growth and advancing a new social contract.

28 January 2021

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Davos 2021: PayPal’s Dan Schulman - Profit and purpose being at odds is ‘ridiculous’

Finextra is at Davos this year, covering global insights into the impact fintech has on wider issues such as responding to Covid-19, restoring economic growth and advancing a new social contract.

25 January 2021

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AFME: ‘Financial materiality is not sustainable finance’s end goal’

In conversation with Richard Peers for Finextra TV, Tonia Plakhotniuk, associate director, policy (sustainable finance & financial reporting) at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) traverses a number of predications we can expect to see around sustainable finance in 2021.

25 January 2021

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European Central Bank sets up climate change centre

The European Central Bank is to set up a climate change centre, uniting the disparate work streams operating across the bank.

25 January 2021

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BIS Innovation Hub targets CBDCs and green finance in 2021

An investigation into the use of multiple wholesale CBDCs for cross-border payments and a DLT prototype for the distribution of tokenised green bonds to retail investors are among the projects on the agenda this year for the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub.

25 January 2021

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BlackRock boosts sustainability analytics with stake in Clarity AI

BlackRock has taken a minority stake in Clarity AI, a Spanish fintech firm that uses machine learning and big data to help investors understand the sociatel impact of their investment portfolios.

18 January 2021

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CES 2021: Stripe and Plaid reveal Covid-19 ‘pressed fast forward’ on digital payments acceptance

As Andrew B. Morris from The Fintech Agenda, LLC highlights at CES 2021, the dark clouds of Covid-19 had a silver lining for the fintech industry. Unicorns Stripe and Plaid supported the global shift to a contactless economy, helping businesses deliver products and services to consumers who had collectively formed new daily habits for everything. Ginger Baker and Erika Wool explain what's next for the payments giants.

13 January 2021

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Finextra's year in review

With 2020 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items, videos and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.

23 December 2020

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