Fintech Scaling Show Podcast: The Evolution of Fintech in 2023: In Conversation with GFA Exchange with Joel Blake January 24, 2023 | Sponsored In recent years, fintech has taken the centre stage in helping facilitate an inclusive financial ecosystem, with far-reaching digital solutions that have the potential to unlock the nearly two billion people worldwide who are excluded from formal financial services. In this informative and thoughtful podcast, Joel Blake OBE, Founder & CEO of GFA Exchange sat [...]
Veganuary: New £240m fake meat fund looks to disrupt and decarbonise the food industry January 23, 2023 Milltrust Ventures and Earth First Food Ventures are set to launch a new $300m (£242m) Smart Protein Fund tomorrow to back alternative proteins and decarbonise the food industry, City A.M. can reveal. Over $600m was invested in total in the cultivated meat sector last year, and the alternative protein market, which includes imitation meats [...]
‘We’re all terrified of being accused of greenwashing’, Standard Chartered boss tells Davos January 19, 2023 Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters demanded clear rules on climate financing at a Davos meeting as potential lenders are “terrified of being accused of greenwashing”. Winters agreed with panellists that there needed to be much more action on financing climate change initiatives. However, he warned there needed to be standards on “what’s a good project [...]
UK ‘cleantech’ firms set for funding boost amid net zero drive, KPMG predicts January 18, 2023 Venture capital investors are turning their gaze towards the UK’s so-called cleantech sector this year as net zero targets move closer, analysts from KPMG have predicted. Last year, global venture investment slumped by almost a third last year as soaring inflation and sharp rate hikes caused investors to turn off the taps following a funding [...]
Carbon Offsets vs Carbon Credits January 18, 2023 | Sponsored Carbon carbon carbon… if you don’t know what it is, I can only imagine you’ve been hibernating under a rock since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and what is now coal was once trees. It’s a hot topic of conversation, just like our current climate, and the increasing number of heatwaves in the UK and across [...]
Revealing differing attitudes to sustainability through how we talk January 18, 2023 | Sponsored Measuring sustainability can be difficult. While companies’ impact on the planet and people is tangible, the metrics to track this impact are harder to define. The sustainability of an organisation is made up of a myriad of business decisions, policies, and programmes which come together to form its impact. In other words, the imprint (be [...]
Do You Have The Other ‘E’ of ESG? January 18, 2023 | Sponsored I believe that intrapreneurship is a huge catalyst for helping you achieve sustainable ESG outcomes. Developing intrapreneurship as part of your ESG strategy will enable your businesses to not only keep up or even surpass your own competitors, but to do so, across diverse customer markets that demand both social and commercial results. Unlocking the [...]
The ‘True Cost’ of NFTs January 16, 2023 | Sponsored Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are unique digital assets that serve as proof of ownership and authenticity of real-world objects like art, in-game items and music. Essentially, NFTs create digital scarcity. They are held on a blockchain, which is a form of distributed ledger that records transactions across a network, similar to a bookkeeping system. Ethereum is [...]
The Electric Vehicle r(EV)olution January 15, 2023 | Sponsored As of 2022, electric vehicles account for more than one in six registrations in the UK. That’s more than the period between 2016 – 2020 combined. And EV’s are here to stay; by 2030, all new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans are set to be banned from sale. What’s driving this change? In [...]
FuturePlus joins forces with Diode to simplify the switch to electric vehicles January 14, 2023 | Sponsored FuturePlus, the online sustainability measurement platform, has announced an exciting new sustainability partnership with electric vehicle (EV) technology start-up Diode – which will make switching to EV smarter, easier and more affordable. ‘FuturePlus powered by Diode’ will see the innovative British technology companies work together to provide an easy-to-use solution for organisations to make a [...]