Nish Kotecha Co-Founder & Chairman at Finboot
According to Deloitte’s Environmental, Social and Governance Preparedness Survey Report, published in May 2023, “78 per cent of participants identified managing supply chain emissions” as a potential hurdle in achieving net zero”, (page 33). Also “63 per cent of the survey participants indicated costs associated with transitioning to net zero tech...
02 October 2023 /regulation /devops Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
The recent and very public demise of cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, has once again dented wider faith and trust in the crypto world. Despite raising $400 million at the start of the year, rumours of FTX being undercapitalised led to more than $650 million in withdrawals - causing it to close its doors and confirming it was in a liquidity crisis. Th...
08 December 2022 /regulation /crypto Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
As the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference - or COP27 - nears, the world will be looking to global leaders for answers, solutions and commitments as they gather in Egypt. Climate change and the environment continues to be a huge issue for business, governments and society at large, and the technology sector is no different. In fact, globa...
01 November 2022 /sustainable
Six years after the Brexit referendum, the UK has recently presented the Electronic Trade Documents Bill. According to the press release “The Bill will make digital documentation legally recognised, reduce admin costs and make it easier for British firms to buy and sell internationally and processing times for electronic documents cut to 20 secon...
17 October 2022 /regulation Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
ABBA, one of the most successful bands in history performed in London recently. Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid looked real, authentic and amazing for their years. The crowds loved it. Regrettably, the singers were holograms created with weeks of performing on a stage in Stockholm, in front of hundreds of cameras collecting their every movemen...
05 July 2022 /regulation /crime Banking Regulations
As we close the door on a turbulent 2021, I share my predictions for what we can expect to see on the tech front in 2022 and beyond... Move to a more cashless society - According to the report from Worldpay from FIS, cash will account for less than 10 percent of in-store payments in the U.S. and just 13 percent of payments worldwide by 2024. Over t...
22 December 2021 /predictions Blockchain Observations
You don’t need me to tell you of the laser focus on sustainability in Boardrooms across the world, not least at COP26 currently happening in Glasgow where the good and the great are meeting to agree action to mitigate climate change. Under ever intensifying pressure from interest groups, investors and customers, companies and brands have been furio...
05 November 2021 /regulation /sustainable Blockchain Observations
Passports provide a licence to travel while also providing security – an established international recognition of proving identity and accompanying a ticket to ride. Passports have also come back into conversations in the last few months through vaccine passports. Covid-19 has forced the imposition of restrictions on our ability to move from one co...
29 September 2021 /regulation /sustainable Blockchain Observations
Annual shareholder meetings are outdated. They were created in the analogue age. In the past shareholder meetings were rated for their refreshments as much as their content and large institutional investors didn’t usually attend. Such meetings remained the purview of the retail investor. But the pandemic has changed all of this. Archie Norman, cha...
16 August 2021 Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Tesco’s recent announcement connecting supply chain finance incentives with sustainability goals is potentially a game changer. By linking annual greenhouse gas emissions data provided by suppliers - independently verified and assessed by sustainability experts - to lower financing rates provided by their banking partner, Santander, creates a win-...
20 May 2021
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