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Why climate transition planning is gaining attention from smaller banks and clients

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Why climate transition planning is gaining attention from smaller banks and clients

Amid lots of talk about everything big corporations and their financial partners are doing (or not doing) to confront climate change challenges, it’s important to dissect and explore the facts and fables involved. One way to do this is by comparing bank and corporate marketing claims against their actual environmental and social accomplishments - ...

10 October 2023 /sustainable

Why top banks must become sustainability leaders not laggards

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Why top banks must become sustainability leaders not laggards

Sustainable and Finance are not supposed to be disconnected concepts for most banks and their corporate customers these days. However, financial institutions have had varying levels of success putting the two words together and in action in relationships and lending practices with their business clients. This is important, because, as stated in a ...

05 October 2023 /sustainable

Is greater accountability needed to accelerate the transition to net zero?

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

Is greater accountability needed to accelerate the transition to net zero?

This is an excerpt from The Future of Fintech in the UK 2023: An Innovate Finance Global Summit and UK Fintech Week special edition' report. The recently published report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the scientific body that advises the UN on rising temperatures – revealed that as current trends stand, we will overshoo...

19 April 2023 /sustainable

Why climate adaption must consider people, profit, and planet in financial services

Richard Peers Founder at ResponsibleRisk Ltd

Why climate adaption must consider people, profit, and planet in financial services

The Right Honourable Lord Deben stepped up to the podium at City & Financial’s Financial Services Climate Adaptation Summit, in London during March, and was in no mood to deliver the normal platitudes often heard at a conference. Prior to Deben taking the stage, we had been hearing about the practical implications for managing climate risk, ope...

04 April 2023 /sustainable

How standardised reporting frameworks can clarify greenwashing claims

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

How standardised reporting frameworks can clarify greenwashing claims

In our first story in this series, we highlighted some of the accusations made toward banks that are publicly committing on one hand to be sustainable; environmentally, socially, and in their governance policies and operations, yet are still actively lending to fossil fuel or other nonrenewable resource companies as customers. Many of the world’s...

22 March 2023 /sustainable

The challenges of authentic sustainability buffet the world’s banks

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

The challenges of authentic sustainability buffet the world’s banks

Critics say carbon commitments don’t match lending policies. There are stiff breezes swirling around corporate sustainability, and it’s starting to erode the tough armour of larger financial institutions across the globe. They’re trying to showcase their dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and they’re actively managing all sorts of ris...

15 March 2023 /sustainable

How Gen Z is driving sustainability across fintech

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

How Gen Z is driving sustainability across fintech

The up-and-coming generation of young adults that were born between 1995 and 2010, popularly known as Gen Z, has been at the forefront of green ambition and combatting climate change. Activism has been popular among this generation not as a mere trend, but as a genuine and passionate interest in safeguarding their future and the future of this pla...

06 February 2023 /sustainable

Using Star Trek to predict sustainable finance moves in 2023

Richard Peers Founder at ResponsibleRisk Ltd

Using Star Trek to predict sustainable finance moves in 2023

William Shatner, Captain Kirk of Star Trek fame, recently went into space aboard the Blue Origin Rocket. He said: “Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensi...

17 January 2023 /sustainable

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

What does net zero mean for banks?

Earlier this month, I moderated a panel hosted by Cogo on how banks can play a more urgent role in the transition to net zero. The webinar was hot on the heels of COP27 and while all the developments over in Egypt were still front of mind. However, despite many discussions at the event this year, we cannot ignore the fact that the policies that we...

15 December 2022 /sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2022: ESG = existential, seismic, global

Finextra Research Writer at Finextra

Sustainable Finance Live 2022: ESG = existential, seismic, global

Enabling positive change through innovation and collaboration, Sustainable Finance Live returned for its fifth edition - and second in person event - at Events@no6 in London on 29th November 2022. Richard Peers, sustainable finance visionary, contributing editor at Finextra and founder of Responsible Risk took to the stage to lead a programme of co...

06 December 2022 /sustainable

SF.Live sneak peek: CommerzVentures reveals climate startup surge

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

SF.Live sneak peek: CommerzVentures reveals climate startup surge

CommerzVentures, the independent fintech venture capital specialists backed by the German banking giant CommerzBank, recently published the H1 2022 Climate Fintech Report on the sector, indicating that climate fintechs are working towards net-zero and attracting large amounts of VC funding. Reflecting on the conclusions of the research, managing pa...

28 November 2022 /sustainable

Sustainable investing and the Ukraine paradox

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

Sustainable investing and the Ukraine paradox

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has proved disruptive for those involved in portfolio management for the responsible investing sector. On the one hand, it has shown the danger of relying on fossil fuels, particularly those sourced from unstable countries. On the other, it has shown that the world is still substantially reliant on traditional energy so...

19 October 2022 /sustainable

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