As of this week, sustainability is no longer a marketing sticker on the side of a chequebook. From Florida to Nairobi, the money is actually moving, and it is bringing millions of previously unbanked customers along for the ride. The week climate banking got institutional For years, the story of green fintech has been half evangelism, half wishful thinking. That story shifted in early June, and the ripples are still spreading through the sector this week. Climate First Bancor

By Pierre E. Berger, Joris Latui, Louise Van Marcke and Gráinne Ní Fhrighil of DLA Piper 1 Introduction 1.1 Promoting competitiveness and resilience are key EU priorities, reflected in the European Commission’s introduction of an Omnibus simplification package focused on sustainable finance. 1.2 Directive (EU) 2026/470 (Omnibus-1) entered into force on 18 March 20262 as a coordinated legislative initiative, preserving the EU Green Deal objectives whilst amending sustainabilit

By Koen Vanderhoydonk, CEO at The Connector. For years the industry has treated embedded banking, beyond banking and sustainability as three separate conversations: one for the technologists, one for the strategists, one for the ESG and compliance teams. Look closely, though, and they describe the same shift from three angles. The bank's boundary is dissolving, and what flows through that opening is not only money. It is the chance to shape decisions at the moment they are ma

An interview with Adhil Shetty by Sean Murphy Every month, BankBazaar generates over a million videos.Each one is different, addressed to a single registered user,delivered in one of twenty Indian languages, walking thatperson through the specific reasons their credit score hasmoved and what to do about it. The AI reads the user’s creditreport, identifies the levers, and produces an explainer tohelp them improve their credit score. One user in a smallertown might be told that