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210 Results from 2021

Paige McNamee

Paige McNamee Senior Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGTech: Goal 8 - Decent work and economic growth

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus target 8.10: Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all...

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Marco Mottadelli

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

What’s driving switching mania in Britain – and will it continue?

Brits traditionally have been rather loyal when it comes to their banking and financial institutions. The average customer can stay with a bank for years, if not decades. The pandemic further depressed switching, despite processes in place that allow consumers to easily move from one account to another. But that’s now changing. Recent data shows t...

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Madhvi Mavadiya

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

Finextra’s Top Long Reads of 2021

With 2021 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most viewed long reads over the course of the past year. 10. Why Biden’s Executive Order is a green light for US open banking Paige McNamee, Finextra reporter, covered Biden’s ‘Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy’ in July 2021 and the impact it could have on US op...

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Níamh Curran

Níamh Curran Senior Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 7 - Affordable and clean energy

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus target 7.a: By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-...

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Madhvi Mavadiya

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 6 - Clean water and sanitation

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 6.a: By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvestin...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 5 - Gender equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life. Financial institutions have the potential to...

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Paige McNamee

Paige McNamee Senior Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 4 - Quality education

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 4.b: By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island deve...

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Níamh Curran

Níamh Curran Senior Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGTech: Goal 3 - Good health and wellbeing

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 3.c: Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small ...

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Madhvi Mavadiya

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 2 - Zero hunger

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 2.3: By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fish...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Innovation in service: Supercharging Jersey’s sustainable finance offering

Keen to meet growing investor demands for transparency on the impact of their portfolios, private wealth managers and fund administration firms are increasingly utilising technology-based sustainable finance solutions to upscale their ESG practice. There are, however, some key challenges that need to be addressed, such as: how do we quantify these ...

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Madhvi Mavadiya

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 1 - No poverty

End poverty in all its forms everywhere. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 1.4: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property...

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Retired Member

Retired Member

The Marco Polo Payment Commitment moves trade finance closer to its digital future

Digitalisation has long been regarded as the next step forward for trade finance, but the widespread adoption of technological solutions to move from paper to data has so far proven elusive. Angela Koll, Senior Business Expert for Trade and Supply Chain Finance at Commerzbank, explains why the Marco Polo Payment Commitment may well represent a dep...

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