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Green fintech proving crucial to global sustainability goals

May 4, 2020

Green fintech is gaining traction across the financial services industry.

How to fund crisis recovery while protecting the climate

April 14, 2020

The EU could finance a response to Covid-19 and expand its climate commitments.

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Can Norway’s Oil Fund chart a course to a greener future?

April 10, 2020

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is trying to reconcile its dependence on fossil fuels and a green future. 

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BMO Capital Markets CEO focuses on community responsibility

April 10, 2020

BMO Capital Markets’ CEO talks about the importance of building strong relationships with customers and being a good corporate citizen for delivering long-term value.

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Is ‘transition’ the new green for bonds?

March 11, 2020

There is still much to debate in the development of an asset class that will support the transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Do sovereign bonds depend on nature?

February 28, 2020

Regulation to fight climate change is coming up against the limitations of calculating the value of unknowns.

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Colombia eyes a sustainable and digital future

February 24, 2020

Colombia’s financial sector is seeking to prolong its upward growth curve through a combination of sustainability financing and digital products.

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RBS’s first social bond receives warm reception

February 13, 2020

The inaugural social bond by RBS will, it is hoped, support the bank’s commitment to SME lending in areas of high deprivation within the UK.

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Sarah Bloom Raskin: the US's focus is misplaced

January 2, 2020

The proliferation of US sanctions is not helping build resilience, while climate change risk is being ignored by policy-makers, former deputy Treasury secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin tells The Banker

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Identifying the opportunity in impact investing

January 2, 2020

Impact investing is still developing but the UK's newly launched Impact Investing Institute is working to accelerate this, as its CEO Sarah Gordon tells The Banker.

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