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Jacobo Weizenblut

Jacobo Weizenblut CEO Trading ADR at TradingADR

What Is Regenerative Agriculture? Definitions, Practices, and Real-World Examples

What is Regenerative Agriculture? The global agricultural system is not only obsolete and failing to feed the world’s population, but centuries of intensive farming have caused extensive damage to fragile ecosystems. Regenerative agriculture is a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore soil health, improve the water cycles and increa

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Hirander Misra

Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group

The Future of Investment – Carbon Markets and Renewables

Insights from FIX EMEA Panel Discussion, March 6 2025 The world of carbon markets and renewable investments is evolving, transforming from a niche sector into a fundamental pillar of global finance. At the recent FIX EMEA event, industry leaders gathered for a lively discussion moderated by Hirander Misra, Chairman & CEO of ZERO13 (and GMEX

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Mayuri Jain

Mayuri Jain CMO at Science4Data

Beyond the Buzzwords: How AI is Exposing Greenwashing in Sustainable Investing

Sustainable investing has moved from a niche interest to a mainstream financial strategy, with over $35 trillion in assets under management globally aligned with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles. Investors, institutions, and regulators are demanding greater transparency in how businesses operate, leading to an increasing numb...

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Jacobo Weizenblut

Jacobo Weizenblut CEO Trading ADR at TradingADR

How 9 Israeli Companies are Revolutionizing Agriculture

In the heart of a region often defined by geopolitical tensions and limited natural resources, Israel has consistently demonstrated remarkable resilience. Despite persistent disturbances in the Middle East, the nation’s entrepreneurial drive, high-tech expertise, and innovative spirit have converged to revolutionize agriculture both domesticall

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Erica Andersen

Erica Andersen Marketing at smartR AI

LLM Datacentre Mania - The Case for Specialized, Edge-Based SLMs

The 500bn US plans and the 200bn European counter to the Magnificent seven Salvo. Yes the world is abuzz with talk of what is effectively massive datacentres, the engines powering the Big business friendly LLM based version of the alleged Gen AI revolution. These colossal facilities, packed with cutting-edge hardware are the backbone of large lan

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Event Report

Sustainable Finance Live – Natural Capital Finance

A Record from the Sustainable Finance Live Conference and Hackathon 2024  On 8 October 2024, Finextra Research and ResponsibleRisk held the annual Sustainable Finance Live hybrid conference and hackathon, in partnership with NayaOne.  The conference took place at Events@ No6 in London, and started off with a welcome from founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor for Finextra, Richard Peers. Peers opened with an introduction outlining the themes and objectives of this year’s event: to understand natural capital risk, pricing, and trade.  The focus areas of the conference were natural capital, agriculture, supply chains, as well as regulation and reporting. The sessions also highlighted highlighting new technologies that are being used to collect nature-related data such as Earth observation and satellite reporting.  Richard Peers, contributing editor at Finextra and founder of ResponsibleRisk, moderated the conference: “What we wanted to do is to put on an event aimed at explaining the landscape of a natural capital transaction, with the associated data providers identified along the way. Ending the process in an asset management trading platform, taking into consideration all the steps that a regulated entity has to undertake, to prove to the financial industry that this can be an asset class, that is as tradable as any other.”  Download a Visual Record of the event below to discover key themes of the event’s panels, keynotes, and hackathon. We cover:  Natural capital trading from field to trade;  How nature financing can be achieved;  The role of data, economic profit, and policy for natural capital;  How to build a sustainable ecosystem using natural value;  Visions and results from the hackathon;  And more. 

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The Future of UK Fintech - 2015-2035

An IFGS Special Edition UK Fintech Week 2024 With UK Fintech Week's flagship event - Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS) - returning for its 10th anniversary, Finextra and Innovate Finance have partnered to publish this report, which acts as your go-to-guide to everything you need to know about financial services and technology in the UK. ‘The Future of UK Fintech: 2015 – 2035: An IFGS Special Edition’ includes commentary from the brightest and best across the fintech ecosystem, discussing and debating the crucial issues facing the sector now and in years to come. This includes key insights from industry experts from Cogo, EY, Konsentus, Marqeta, Standard Chartered Ventures, and Zopa Bank. Scoping out the next decade to come, this report explores the agenda topics below and more: The Next Decade of FS and Innovation: What Lies Ahead Fintech Beyond FS Borders: How Fintech is Impacting other Industries and Sectors UK and the World: Keeping our Crown while Learning from Others Transformative Technologies: Opportunities and Risks Users of Tomorrow: The Next Generation of Consumers The Shifting Ecosystem: Who Will Lead?

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Event Report

Cloud innovation paves path to the future

An open banking platform has the power to transform a bank, whether the bank is looking to modernise using technology on-premise, in the cloud or as Software-asa-Service (SaaS). In turn, banks gain access to endless opportunities to engage with customers and scale for massive demand. This event report, in association with Temenos, highlights the key takeaways from Temenos Community Forum 2023 that took place in Vienna, Austria. Bringing industry experts and partners together to explore new opportunities opened up by emerging technologies and the cloud, this year’s overarching event theme was ‘Engage and Grow in a Cloud World’. In this report, we explore the different ways that the cloud is accelerating transformation in the industry, including: Why banks are being disrupted by BaaS and embedded finance services; How agility, innovation, and customer experience are gaining momentum on the cloud; How to build resilient cloud infrastructure for sustainability; And more.

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How Geoengineering Guides Research, Funding and Policy

In this PREDICT 2025 USA interview, Lisa Graumlich, American climatologist and President of the AGU, explores how there is a need for an ethical framework or code of conduct into research on climate interventions amid global emissions increasing and uncertainty in meeting the Paris Agreement’s goals. With a growing interest in geoengineering research to mitigate the risks associated with global warming, the conversation goes on to dive deep into why experiments and deployments are attracting interesting in the US and why implementing a globally recognised set of ethical principles, not just for scientists, but for private funders too, can lead to policies moving forward.

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Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

10 B Corp-certified financial institutions

US-based organisation, B Labs is rapidly becoming a globally-recognised symbol of ethical business, with more and more businesses undergoing the vigorous process to become B Corp-certified. B Labs is working to expand its guidelines to include all types of businesses, and will likely to continue to develop and improve on requirements as the global...

Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

What the EU deforestation law delay means for fintech

The EU deforestation law was proposed in June 2023 to propel environmental efforts by curbing logging and deforestation practices in nations that export to the EU. The legislation was a move towards reducing EU consumers’ impact on global deforestation, however it saw pushback from multiple nations. What is the EU deforestation law? The law would ...

Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Fracking hell: What Trump’s second presidency means for green initiatives

After a whirlwind election that saw the US map run red earlier this month, Donald Trump has been elected as the 47th US president. With a Republican majority in the Senate and House of Representatives, it is expected that sustainable ambitions and green initiatives will be taking a backseat (to say it lightly) for the next four years. While Democra...