CSR on Financial Markets

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-100
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Financial Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
International Financial Crisis

Financial institutions can make a substantial contribution to promoting the principles of sustainable development among their main stakeholders, namely portfolio investors and financial consumers. The challenges posed by climate change have led to the intensification of the financial innovation process and the emergence of new financial instruments such as green bonds and sustainability indices. Their success was due both to the involvement of international institutions that have developed various voluntary principles for companies and to portfolio investors who understood their role in the new context and bought new types of securities. Therefore, the efforts of both sides are bearing fruit in an environment in which confidence must be regained after the earthquake generated by the international financial crisis and the image crisis that financial institutions are facing.

Risking value theory in the political economy of finance and nature

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Christophers
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Innovation ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Index Insurance ◽  
Climate Finance ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Catastrophe Bonds ◽  
Economy Of Nature

Responding to calls for geographers to re-engage value theory in examining the political economy of nature, this article questions the capacity of such theory to grasp nature’s growing representation, valuation and exchange through financial instruments ranging from catastrophe bonds to carbon credits and from green bonds to index insurance. Drawing on and extending recent debates in political economy, it submits that understanding the contemporary nexus of climate change and financial innovation requires incorporating risk into value theory – it requires, that is, ‘risking’ value theory. Parsing the literature on climate finance, the article demonstrates how such risking might be achieved.

Accelerating Financial Innovation Through RegTech

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-79
Author(s):  
Shilpa Narang
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Innovation ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
Technological Knowledge ◽  
Financial Service ◽  
Global Banking ◽  
The World ◽  
Start Ups

The buzz word ‘RegTech' is on the rise. A financial service regulation has inflated at an astounding rate since the financial crisis and, therefore, has the price tag of regulatory compliance. Many start-ups have begun to apply digital technological knowledge including APIs, AI, RPAs, and many more to these immediate, numerous, and burdensome tasks to meet the terms and regulations, hence the emergence of RegTech. This study examines the implications for financial institutions and regulation particularly when technology poses a confront to the global banking and regulatory system. It attempts to examine the characteristics and applications of RegTech in the world of regulatory compliance. It also illustrates a model to define the transformation of present workload to proposed workload of regulatory compliance with an application of RegTech.

scholarly journals The Disruptive Effect of Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain in the over the Counter Derivatives Market

Global Jurist ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo Paolini
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Disruptive Effect ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Distributed Ledger ◽  
Distributed Ledger Technology ◽  
Financial Transactions ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe market for derivatives is substantially different after the 2007/08 financial crisis. Trust fuels business yet the financial crisis undermined this concept and customers lost faith in financial institutions. The then dichotomy, faced by innovators, was to insist with a system based on trust in financial institutions, or explore others where neither trust nor banks, as intermediaries, were indispensable for the successful and safe completion of financial transactions. The aim of this piece of research is to analyse to what extent innovative technology would change the way the ‘Over The Counter’ (OTC) market operates by providing investors with a trustworthy platform for the efficient assessment of the risk behind certain financial instruments. Consequently, the market may not be caught by surprise when another financial crisis strikes.

scholarly journals International financial crisis and bank statization in Germany

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 541-564
Author(s):  
Roberto Chacon de Albuquerque
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial System ◽  
State Control ◽  
International Financial Crisis ◽  
Banking Institutions ◽  
Market Stabilization ◽  
Legal Strategies ◽  
Banking Institution ◽  
Hypo Real Estate

Facing an international financial crisis that could lead its own financial system to the brink of collapse, the German government needed to show political will in order to save financial institutions in risky situations. This article analyzes the legal strategies used to rescue the financial system, including the statization of banking institutions as an ultima ratio. Prior to the bank statization established by the Rescue Takeover Act, the Financial Market Stabilization Act foresaw an increase in the capital of financial institutions by means of state control without statization. This last act, nonetheless, has not been considered enough to avoid the collapse of a banking institution that is relevant for the whole financial system such as Hypo Real Estate (HRE).

scholarly journals The scenario of microfinance in Latin America against the international financial crisis

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (No. 12) ◽  
pp. 583-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.R.E. DALAN ◽  
K. SRNEC
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
International Financial Crisis ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Macroeconomic Growth

Latin America has very good conditions for microfinance; the macroeconomic growth which Latin America had shown in the recent years created favourable conditions for the microfinance institutions' favorable conditions and its development. Profitability of the microfinance sector presents an attractive market for the financial institutions which already have a have strong position in the market. The purpose of this work is to focus on the current situation and performance of the microfinance sector while identifying some of the reasons that affect the microfinance institutions in this region. The work also provides a view on the microfinance industry development to get a better description of the sector. The microfinance institutions are earning an undeniable importance in the process of the regional development and represent an important factor in the alleviation of poverty and insecurity for large segments of the population. The work is based on information from relevant sources that allow us to identify the current status of microfinance in Latin America, especially in these times when the crisis affects also the region's economic dynamism.

CURRENT SITUATION OF MANAGEMENT OF LIFE SKILLS EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND PREVENTION OF DISASTER FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN THE ETHNIC MINORITIES BOARDING HIGH SCHOOLS OF THE NORTHWESTERN AREA AND ISSUES HAS BEEN POSED

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vu Thi Thu Trang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Northwestern Region

Through survey results on the status of management of life skills education activities to cope with climate change and disaster prevention for the sustainable development of local communities in the ethnic minority boarding high schools in the Northwestern region from 2013 to 2018, the author deeply analyzed and assessed the strengths, weaknesses, causes of strengths and weaknesses of the management of education activities on life skills to cope with climate change and disaster prevention for the sustainable development of local communities for ethnic minority students at boarding high schools for ethnic minorities in the Northwestern region in the present period and the issues raised.

How Finance Colonised Aotearoa: A Concise Counter-History

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Catherine Cumming
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Financial History ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
History Of

This paper intervenes in orthodox under-standings of Aotearoa New Zealand’s colonial history to elucidate another history that is not widely recognised. This is a financial history of colonisation which, while implicit in existing accounts, is peripheral and often incidental to the central narrative. Undertaking to reread Aotearoa New Zealand’s early colonial history from 1839 to 1850, this paper seeks to render finance, financial instruments, and financial institutions explicit in their capacity as central agents of colonisation. In doing so, it offers a response to the relative inattention paid to finance as compared with the state in material practices of colonisation. The counter-history that this paper begins to elicit contains important lessons for counter-futures. For, beyond its implications for knowledge, the persistent and violent role of finance in the colonisation of Aotearoa has concrete implications for decolonial and anti-capitalist politics today.  

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