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 [...]
What’s bubbling up as we boil the ESG ocean? December 9, 2022 The globe is warming. Regulators are warning. Investors are calling. Climate change is felt by every one of us and it dominates discussions from the sofa at home, to the office, to the world’s leading conference stages. Whatever your perspective: concerned citizen or commercial entity (and the two are by no means mutually exclusive) we [...]
BlackRock comes under fire from London investor over ESG ‘hypocrisy’ December 7, 2022 London-based activist investor Bluebell Capital has set its sights on the world’s biggest asset manager BlackRock, calling for chief Larry Fink to be ousted over “hypocrisy” on environmental, social and governance issues.
Exclusive: Loosen pension rules to bridge ‘valley of death’ for climate tech, say policy groups December 2, 2022 A group of top tech bodies have called on ministers to rein in restrictions on pension funds today so they can fuel a wave of climate tech start-ups and bridge the “valley of death” funding gap facing the sector.
Climate Change & Sustainable Eye Care November 14, 2022 | City Talk The last week has seen world leaders and changemakers from around the world gather in Sharm-El Sheik in Egypt at the annual Conference of the Parties event (COP27). This year, the goal is to build upon what has been discussed and implemented at the conference since its genesis in Rio in 1992. Global Unison Enhancing [...]
‘Greening’ investor portfolios has done little to slash emissions, UBS warns November 10, 2022 The “greening” of investors’ portfolios has had little impact on the actual decarbonising of the economy, investment bank UBS warned today, as it called for a significant acceleration of financial efforts to tackle environmental collapse.
Octopus looks to slash heat pump costs with Lloyds deal November 9, 2022 Renewable energy firm Octopus has struck a deal with Lloyds Banking Group to roll-out low-cost heat pumps to customers today, in a tie-up that aims to boost the decarbonisation of domestic heating.
‘Golden source’ for ESG data will help listed firms decide where they put their cash November 8, 2022 A new ‘golden source’ for environmental and social governance (ESG) data will help listed firms decide where they put their money, and even what their values should be. Nina Spencer saw a gap in the market after more than 15-years sitting on company boards and advising leading fintech firms. Her new analytics and benchmarking database, [...]