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The European Commission's (EC) Action Plan on sustainable finance is a major policy objective by the European Union (EU) to promote sustainable investment. As per the plan, banks are expected to fina...
As discussed in my prior blog, “Green Finance” is both a challenge to be met and an opportunity to be seized. In this blog we’ll dive deeper into the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) revolu...
Economic, social, and environmental factors increasingly govern the manner in which we live and work. In 2017, the World Bank had reported that almost 31 percent of the adult population worldwide wer...
The most effective means to achieve economic and social welfare is our ability to earn a living. Earning a fair living is inexorably linked to our access to financial services. In order to get paid or...
ESG is both an acronym and a market mover, but what does it really stand for? In the absence of definitive standards many terms are interchanged to describe a company’s performance as a steward of nat...
The 6G era will have hegemony around 2035. 6G bank communication will be accepted in various mobile data comparisons transmitted through spectrum 6G technology. An important part of the new paradigm o...
There were two primary principles that I touched in my previous blog Climate change Management- whose job is it anyway. The first is, boundary definitions with clear responsibility/ accountability f...
When on October 15, 2021 second of my FINEXTRA blogs was published it wake up interesting response in the readers world. The number of responses was higher then expected and one of the reason may be t...
SMEs are falling behind in the race to net zero. The threat of a regulatory ‘stick’ hangs over them, with companies likely to face repercussions in future if targets are not met. Understandably, there...
Data is increasingly valued as an asset for companies, so ensuring that data is of high quality is imperative. Progressively, in the world of IoT, we are seeing machines make decisions. These decision...
The ever-present risks from climate change have made sustainability a key topic for financial institutions. Companies have historically driven financial, security, and agility benefits through the clo...
As COVID-19 prompted people to think about their impact on the planet, banks have reviewed their approach to environmental, social & governance (ESG) with fresh eyes. KPMG’s 2021 ESG risks in bank...