Vacancies are driven by growing demand for environmental consultants, data compliance experts and diversity specialists.
Development finance institutions must reinvent themselves to be fit for purpose, writes Rémy Rioux, CEO of the French development bank agency and initiator of the Finance in Common coalition.
Financial service providers have a responsibility to make faster progress on the sustainability and inclusion agendas, and values-based finance can help.
The myriad of reporting frameworks that signalled industries’ support of sustainability now needs to go if banks care about investors’ trust.
The sustainable finance markets will only achieve their purpose of funding decarbonisation by taking a flexible approach.
Despite women now making up a majority of total bank employees in the US, men significantly outnumber women in senior executive positions.
Although the region has arguably been slow off the mark in the adoption of green bonds, things are starting to change.
Digital transformation is helping financial institutions address the challenge of decarbonisation, but transformational technologies bring carbon emissions of their own.
More meaningful data and better processes to hire and manage staff will help improve both gender balance and the bottom line, argues Nouriel Roubini, Kübra Koldemir and Paul Smith.
Remote sensing and artificial intelligence, combined with blockchain technology, could help more accurately measure and manage sustainability-related risks.
No matter how committed a firm is to enshrining sustainability into their business, the easy part is saying it. The harder part is proving it.
A close look at the world’s worst polluter reveals a clear climate plan.
Carbon emissions trading is a realistic way of getting to net zero, argues the president of Bank of America’s international operations.
Mergers and acquisitions data may be more revealing yet about the real growth of green business.
Finance can make a difference in reducing the impact of climate change, and green sectors can keep banks in business.
The Banker brings together supply chain finance experts from five global transaction banks to discuss the importance of ESG in supply chains.
Sustainable investors are driving industry-wide disruption for the largest ESG index players.
The financial services sector provides a useful lever for EU policy-makers looking to create significant change in a short period of time.
Sustainable investment markets can improve thanks to scientific rigour.
Finance is getting better at green, but the journey to a fairer transition remains long.