Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is ‘needed’ but still a ‘nice to have’
Tuesday 13 October 2020
Questions around culture, human resources, regulations, compliance, the impact on society and the environment are often overlooked by companies that strive for huge amounts of growth. This industry is now looking at prioritising factors beyond financial metrics, market-fit projections and customer acquisition numbers. Have environmental, social or corporate governance factors moved on from a ‘nice
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Is ESG a ‘nice to have’ or a ‘need to have’ in 2020? – The FTT Snapshot Survey Returns!
Tuesday 06 October 2020
We at FinTECHTalents like to keep our fingers on the pulse and our noses to the wind to find out our community concerns, what our FinTech leaders are discussing and what our industry is holding up for debate. Never one to reduce our touch points we are re-launching our FTT Snapshot Surveys – a bi-monthly
Build Back Better – Purpose and Values Part 2
Tuesday 01 September 2020
In Part 1 of this series, I focused on tackling Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), as this is an appropriate place to start when considering how to build back better. Encouragingly, this past week also saw several announcements on ESG by financial services companies – Tandem Bank acquired green lender Allium, HSBC set up a
Build Back Better – Part 1
Tuesday 25 August 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic took a grip on our world back in April 2020, I was listening to a popular FinTech podcast and was struck by a quote from John Hope Bryant, CEO of Operation Hope: “This is a global reset of our virtues and our values and a chance for us to get it
The FinTech we were promised needs to consider the Environment, Society and Governance
Tuesday 30 June 2020
I first saw a demo of Robinhood – the commission-free trading app at an event in Singapore. I fell in love. The promise of FinTech – at its very heart – was desire to democratize finance. If only more people had access to tools and services that would allow them to control their wealth, and
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