Month: April 2024

New Report Urges Fintech Firms to Target Women Customers in Emerging Markets for Financial Inclusion

Stuart Mitchell

Fintech firms could do more to intentionally target women customers in emerging markets. According to a new IFC report released today, by using business strategies informed by analyzing sex-disaggregated data, fintech firms could capitalize on the women’s market while contributing to greater financial inclusion for women. Fintech and digital financial services have been considered a game-changer for women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment. Until now, there has been limited research that quantifies the degree to which fintech firms are actively addressing women’s financial inclusion and the specific strategies that are…

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Save the Children Launches Nature-Based Solutions Hub to Help Combat Climate Crisis for Children

Stuart Mitchell

Save the Children Global Ventures has launched a Nature-based Solutions for Children (NbS4C) Hub, seeking to leverage the carbon credit market to fund community-based projects that benefit children and combat the global climate crisis. Through the NbS4C Hub, Save the Children Global Ventures is developing a portfolio of carbon projects in the Asia Pacific, including clean cookstoves in Nepal, improved water technology in Pakistan, mangrove rehabilitation in Vietnam and reforestation in the Philippines. The NbS4C team is also scoping carbon market pilots in East and Southern Africa. Save the Children…

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More Than 36% of Russell 1000 Workers Don’t Make a Family-Sustaining Living Wage

Stuart Mitchell

Americans care that companies pay a fair, living wage. In fact, JUST Capital’s report “2023 Issues Survey – The People’s Priorities,” which measures the business issues most important to the public, found that paying a fair, living wage was the highest priority for a fourth consecutive year, garnering widespread support as the top issue across almost every demographic group. In a year marked by high inflation and increasing cost of living around the country, the focus on living wages – or a wage rate that allows workers to meet basic…

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Berry Global Increases Recycling Capacity for Flexible Films

Stuart Mitchell

As part of a pan-European project to expand production of its Sustane® range of recycled polymers, Berry Global Group, Inc.’s  Flexibles division recently increased recycling capacity across three of its European recycling facilities. Leveraging the company’s global access to valuable recycled plastic, this expansion project will help meet the growing demand for high-performance films made with recycled content. “As part of Berry’s Impact 2025 sustainability strategy, we are committed to helping our customers meet and exceed their sustainability goals. This latest investment in capacity, and the ability to include high-quality…

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Majority of ‘green’ investors have money in banks that fund fossil fuels

Stuart Mitchell

New research from Triodos Bank UK reveals the extent to which greenwashing is influencing consumers’ decisions to open ISAs, as well-intentioned savers and investors are unaware of their financial providers’ poor environmental standards. Ahead of the April tax year refresh, when many consumers will be choosing new Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), Triodos has released new analysis combining consumer polling with independent ratings of financial services providers from Ethical Consumer, the UK’s leading alternative consumer organisation. Providers of cash savings and stocks and shares ISAs are analysed by Ethical Consumer on…

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