Day: 7 November 2022

Prevented ocean plastic Africa launches to help THE GLOBAL PROGRAMME stop enough plastic bottles to fill a great pyramid from reaching the ocean in next 18 months

Stuart Mitchell

With COP27 about to begin in Sharm El Sheikh, a major expansion of the award winning Prevented Ocean Plastic programme has been announced. The expansion will save up to 5,000 tonnes of plastic a year – or 220 million bottles – from entering the ocean from pollution in two areas in Africa, including the Swahili Coast and where the Nile meets the Mediterranean. Prevented Ocean Plastic Africa will be a partnership with leading manufacturer Bariq, to create fully traceable, certified, quality recycled plastic. Using a proven model, underpinned with rigorous…

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Liforme Becomes First UK Yoga Company To Be Awarded B Corp Certification

Stuart Mitchell

Liforme has become the first British yoga company to earn B Corp Certification after achieving one of the best Impact Assessment scores of all time in its sector (2nd highest of all B Corps globally in the Sporting Goods category). B Corp status is awarded to companies which live up to high standards of social and environmental impact. Of the first 100,000 companies that took B Corp’s very detailed Impact Assessment, only 3.5% achieved the minimum requirement of 80 points, with companies scoring on average 50.9 – making Liforme’s score of 115 points…

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Winner of Phoenix Group’s first Innovation Forum for customer engagement and financial well-being announced

Stuart Mitchell

Phoenix Group announces that Behavioural Finance is the inaugural winner of its first Innovation Forum. In collaboration with FinTech Scotland and TCS’s Co-Creation and Innovation Network (COIN), the Phoenix Innovation Forum invited FinTech enterprises to develop innovative new tools that improve financial wellbeing, engagement and make a genuine positive impact on customers’ lives. The Innovation Forum launched in May 2022 and seven companies were shortlisted to provide an initial pitch of their idea to an expert judging panel. In June, three companies were selected as finalists and assigned mentors from…

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Mastercard and Ravelin Partner to Reduce Fraud and Create Frictionless Checkout in Digital Quick Commerce

Stuart Mitchell

During the pandemic, online grocery orders rose by more than 50% and are expected to rise further this year, according to McKinsey research. More than ever, people make day-to-day purchases online, choosing quick commerce merchants that offer speed and convenience. As people open new accounts and make faster purchases, merchants are challenged to verify identities and manage evolving fraud threats in real time. To meet these needs, Mastercard and Ravelin, a leading machine learning fraud platform, have joined forces to deliver an enhanced fraud solution. Incorporating digital identity verification capabilities from Ekata…

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LanzaTech and Brookfield Form Strategic Partnership with an Initial $500 Million Commitment

Stuart Mitchell

LanzaTech NZ, Inc., an innovative Carbon Capture and Transformation (“CCT”) company that transforms waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products that people use in their daily lives, announces a funding partnership with Brookfield Renewable, and its institutional partners, to co-develop and build new commercial-scale production plants that will employ LanzaTech’s CCT technology, which transforms captured carbon into valuable raw material commodities. The funding partnership commits an initial $500 million to be invested by Brookfield Renewable in constructing and operating new CCT projects that have…

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