583. Insights: Can financial services lead the fight against climate change?

Our expert host, Simon Taylor, is joined by some great guests to talk about all things sustainabilty in the financial services sector – in association with Mastercard.

There’s never been a better or more timely way to go green, and financial services is uniquely placed to have real impact in this space.

Following COP26, Simon and the panel look at where we are now, the challenges and opportunities, as well as the role of fintech in driving big changes.

This week's guests include:

Scott Abrahams, SVP Business Development and Fintech, Mastercard

Lee Brown, Operations Manager, Helpful

Will Smith, Co-Founder, Tred

All of this and much more on today's episode!

This episode is sponsored by Temenos.

Temenos is the world’s leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software banks can create more human digital experiences, hyper-efficient business models, and transform their back-office. Our clients are the highest performing banks with cost-income ratios which are twice better than the industry average.

Learn more at Temenos.com.

This episode is sponsored by Primer.

Primer is the world's first automation platform for payments. With Primer, merchants and developers have all the underlying infrastructure and "lego blocks" they need to build the best buying experiences for their customers. Learn more and book a demo at primer.io (https://primer.io/?utm_source=11fs&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=fintech_insider_)

This episode is sponsored by SAS.

SAS help their customers make banking simple, safe and rewarding for everyone. They support banks in their goal to treat every customer as an individual. Combining data from across the bank with external information and real-time context delivers unique insight and a deep understanding of customer needs. By applying this insight at the right time via the right channel, SAS help make every customer engagement with the bank a relevant, valuable, and seamless experience.

SAS enables banks to embed real-time intelligence in every interaction, helping them make smarter, faster decisions that transform customer experience.

To find out more, visit. https://www.sas.com

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Special Guests: Lee Brown, Scott Abrahams, and Will Smith.

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