Issue 314 · May 24, 2021 Weekly edition · 4 min read

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The decade just started but the main theme will be climate change. Either humanity is tackling the challenge or will face serious trouble in the years to come. This transformation is not only about electric cars and

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Sustainability: The role of insurer as innovator, influencer, investor and risk manager

Presentation of Oliver Köth's Talk (CTO NTT DATA DACH) at the FintechMeet-up Cologne, 20.5.2021. You can access the talk also on youtube: https://fintechweekly.com/links/5743

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Selling Sustainability: The challenges of marketing green fintech FinTech Meetup Europe — Defining a category is both the privilege and the pain of being an early entrant. As the market fills out with newer competitors eager for a piece of the pie, the challenge moves from establishing the category, to establishing yourself firmly as its leader. Eleanor talks about: Establishing a new categor and how do you sell consumers on a completely new product? Open story ↗ Financial independence Europe Podcast Financial independence Europe Podcast — What is this podcast about, in a few words? Life-hacking Europe. Finding the best country to study, work, invest and retire in. Which means: how to reach Financial Independence in Europe. Open story ↗ FinTech World Forum 2021 FinTech World Forum — FinTech World Forum 2021 (FinTech Conference) is based in London UK Europe as one of leading fintech events for the global financial and banking technology industry. It focuses on crypto, blockchain, finance technology, banking and finance. For more info visit: https://fintechconferences.com Open story ↗ Ex-Merrill Banker’s Trading App Valued at Over $5 Billion yahoo! finance — Trade Republic lets customers trade stocks, ETFs, crypto currencies and other financial products. Today’s funding round followed a 62-million-euro ($75.5 million) round last year that had already turned Trade Republic into one of the highest valued startups in Germany, next to smartphone bank N26. Open story ↗ Become partner of the month! FinTech Weekly — Become a partner of the month and reach out TO over 20000 subscribers worldwide. Get in touch with us at [email protected] Open story ↗ Sustainability: The role of insurer as innovator, influencer, investor and risk manager FinTech Meetup Europe — Oliver Köth, CTO of NTT Data Germany, is talking about the state of play in sustainability. Oliver talk is about: Social, Environmental and Governance criteria (ESG), Tracking Slavery, Data transparency, European Taxonomy, Sustainable Insurance Policy (PSI), Technology as enabler for a sustainable future and more. Open story ↗ Goldman Sachs on how to measure the value of Digital Currencies ZeroHedge — Goldman Sachs on ETH: "the three biggest moves in the crypto ecosystem—payments, DeFi, and NFTs—are mostly being built on Ethereum, so it’s going to get priced like a network. The more people that use it, the more stuff that gets built on it, and the higher the price will ultimately go. And since for the past five years much of the world has largely associated crypto with bitcoin, it will take some time for conventional wisdom to realize that there is much more to crypto than just bitcoin." Open story ↗ Selling Sustainability: The challenges of marketing green fintech Linkedin ‎Tred — Defining a category is both the privilege and the pain of being an early entrant. As the market fills out with newer competitors eager for a piece of the pie, the challenge moves from establishing the category, to establishing yourself firmly as its leader. You can access the talk also on youtube: https://fintechweekly.com/links/5745 Open story ↗ What Silvergate's Partnership with Facebook-Backed Diem Means Going Forward Nasdaq — Last week, Silvergate Capital (NYSE: SI) announced a partnership deal with Diem Networks U.S. to be the exclusive issuer of the stablecoin Diem USD. Diem was formerly known as Facebook's Libra project, and this will be the first asset issued on its payment system. Open story ↗ What you should know about the EU Taxonomy GreenBiz — The EU Taxonomy is set to be a foundational tool of the European Green Deal and will affect companies well beyond European borders. It is essential for foreign companies and markets that conduct business in the European Union (EU) to be aware of the implications of the Taxonomy. Open story ↗ Corlytics introduces regulatory dashboard for ESG rules Finextra — Corlytics has today launched a solution focused on monitoring ESG (environmental, social and governance) financial regulation, allowing clients to understand risk rated regulatory information across both ESG and their sub-set of themes. Open story ↗ Covid the catalyst for ESG in credit ING Bank — Issuers and investors alike are embracing Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) as core financing or investment philosophies. Covid has acted as a catalyst for that higher ESG demand and longer-term, ESG will outperform as demand is insatiable and supply is lagging behind. Fund flows, supply and regulation are all pushing the trend Open story ↗

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