Thanks to all of you who have pre-ordered our forthcoming book, Fintech Revolution: Universal Inclusion in the New Financial Ecosystem (Palgrave Macmillan). We’ve got some good news for you, thanks to popular demand the price in the US has now dropped. Anyone who’s pre-ordered it will pay the new, lower… Read More »Fintech Revolution: Price drop alert!
28 June 2017 – SIF💚S at Money20/20 & Copenhagen Fintech Week, Copenhagen Fintech Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark saw our first event that attracted an audience of engaged experts and learners “Thanks for an inspiring session” “Thanks Sofie et all – for a great and relevant discussion. This should (and will) be… Read More »SIF💚S – Green Fintech Events – Dates for your Diary
Continuing our supporting partnership with UNEP and the Green Digital Finance Alliance, the Stockholm Green Digital Finance centre and hiveonline were invited to Berlin to advise the G20 policymakers and representatives of the V20 countries – 46 countries made particularly vulnerable by climate change – on how fintech could help… Read More »GreenInvest G20 Meeting and Green Digital Finance
hiveonline is proud to have been asked to support the UN Environment Programme Inquiry into Design of a Sustainable Financial System, recently accompanying them to the G7 Green Finance for SME policy making meeting in Venice. Six of the G7 governments (all except USA) were represented, with a combination of Environment and Financial departments sending delegates.
Following an opening speech by the State Secretary for the Ministry of the Environment, Ms Barbara Degani, Advantage Financial presented their views on the future, with Fintech and future finance driving the agenda but also highlighted the shortage of equity capital available for research and investment. UNEP Inquiry paper co-author Nick Robins presented a summary of the findings, followed by analytical observations by PwC, which centred on the gap between the report’s ambitions and the backing of banks and nations to mobilise practical steps.
I was excited to represent the Stockholm Fintech Hub at the panel discussion on Nordic Fintech Hub co-operation at this week’s Oslo Fintech Fest. As a recent entrant on the Nordic Fintech scene and a relatively recent immigrant to the Nordics, I’ve been privileged to witness both the common and… Read More »Building bridges not walls: the Nordic Fintech Hubs