How e-bikes can and should be part of the drive towards better corporate ESG policies December 9, 2022 | Sponsored With environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues now placed at the forefront of many corporate agendas, it is easy to be sceptical about the actual actions taken forward versus publicly voiced sustainable intentions. At times it has felt like many have addressed what is necessary to “tick the ESG box” but without a genuine plan [...]
Sustainability Superheroes in Fintech December 9, 2022 PrettyLittleThing sponsored Love Island’s Gemma Owen to champion its ‘pre-loved’ fashion marketplace this year, encouraging shoppers to sell clothes rather than throw them away. However, it still expects to launch 956 new fashion items into the hands of hungry consumers this week. Did someone say greenwashing? It’s one thing to say, ‘Climate change matters; we [...]
Do we care about the world enough to make companies care? December 9, 2022 If asked who I’d love to be seated next to at a hypothetical dinner party, I immediately respond, Steve Jobs. I would love to learn how he went about building a company that has had such an extraordinary impact in the world, changing the way we work, live and communicate. I am not saying that [...]
The Power of FinTech: Delivering on the ESG Agenda December 9, 2022 Many point to the 2008 financial crisis as the birth of the current fintech movement. At a time of economic turmoil, innovators and new entrants stepped in to rebuild trust and resilience in the financial sector and provide better, easier, and cheaper services to the end consumer. Nearly 15 years later, the world is facing [...]
Blockchain could shake up ESG December 9, 2022 Meet Dr Jane Thomason International ESG Campaigner (Chair, Kasei Holdings, London) Dr Jane Thomason spent a lifetime working across the globe in international health care in emerging economies, and now thinks Blockchain can be the solution to many of the problems she experienced. From energy consumption, humanitarian disasters, to poor access to quick finance, the [...]
Solving The World’s Most Pressing Problems By Redirecting Capital Is At The Heart Of Emanuela Vartolomei’s Bid To Createsystem. Wall Street without the Walls.” December 9, 2022 | Sponsored Solving the world’s most pressing problems by redirecting capital is at the heart of Emanuela Vartolomei’s bid to create “real change to the financial system. Wall Street without the walls.” Her model uses artificial intelligence to measure 13 million companies at a “hyper-scale”, to “reinvent research” and propel firms and governments to ESG transparency. But [...]
Hex, National Theatre, review: Tonally weird and too macabre December 9, 2022 The National Theatre’s Christmas show isn’t exactly a Christmas show. Hex is a modern interpretation of Sleeping Beauty, a boldly imaginative spectacle that is more than a touch macabre. In terms of the plot, a fairy lives deep in a forest and one day a palace worker running from a baby-eating ogre stumbles upon her [...]
Bitcoin is dead! Long live Bitcoin! December 9, 2022 Jason Deane opens up the newspapers to see why the media so gleefully jumps on negative stories about Bitcoin and the wider crypto world.
MWek Solutions launches Regulatory Outsourcing and Technology business December 9, 2022 | Sponsored MWek Solutions comes to the market at a time of need, where regulatory and compliance uncertainty combined with opaque market activity has caused immeasurable damage. For those businesses left, having the correct internal processes in place have now become a priority for future success. Regulations and compliance will become a necessity and not a nice [...]
The Christmas gift guide 2022, by City A.M. December 8, 2022 Ho, ho, hold up on shopping for Christmas presents on the freezing cold streets of London… we present you with the City A.M. Christmas Gift Guide. Do your shopping online and find some seriously thoughtful presents in our guide, which is broken down into ten categories so there’s something for every type of gift receiver [...]