Barbara Pianese, The Banker's Latin America editor, chats with Herbert Hernández, Bantrab CEO, about the bank's mission and the Guatemalan economy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this third episode, Barbara Pianese discusses digitalisation and banking in Latin America with fintech entrepreneur Brett King. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The second episode of this series focuses on the relationship between banks and fintechs, recent regulatory developments for the banking sector in the region, and sustainable finance.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our first episode focuses on how the current challenging macroeconomic and political context is affecting the Latin America region, and how banks are coping in the current high interest rate environment. We also discuss recent developments regarding financial inclusion in the region.  Our guests are: Martin Spicer, regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, International Finance CorporationGermana Cruz, CEO and head of financial institutions, Latin America, Standard CharteredAlejandro Garcia, regional group head for financial institutions, Latin America, Fitch RatingsMauricio Zuluaga, liquidity management director, Citi Latin AmericaDavid Goldschmidt, vice-president, head of cross-border real-time payments, Mastercard Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While mobile money has prompted financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa to more than double in 10 years, the gender gap in access to basic financial services remains wider than any other world region. John Everington talks to the World Bank's Leora Klapper about the main obstacles to increased financial inclusion for the continent's women, and to the World Food Programme's Chloe Gueguen about strategies for narrowing the gender gap.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

London mayor Sadiq Khan wants more power and financing for cities so they can deal with and find solutions to climate change. Cities, after all, are responsible for over two thirds of emissions and local administrations, says Khan, are seen as the “doers”, while national governments are the “delayers”.He thinks that mayors should be part of the UN climate conference negotiations. In fact, COP27, which is wrapping up in Sharm el-Sheikh this week, will be the last without cities at the table, he says.Does he have a point? Hear what Khan told Sustainable Views and what our correspondent Philippa Nuttall makes of his green leadership for London as she talks to Silvia Pavoni, your host.-Read Philippa’s article on why cities struggle to go carbon neutral:https://www.sustainableviews.com/why-cities-are-struggling-to-go-carbon-neutral/Find out more about Sustainable Views, here:https://www.sustainableviews.comAnd request a free trial to access all our content, here:https://survey.ft.com/jfe/form/SV_9RGu5ktcIREwMLA?_sp=3bd6bfcc-af1c-4833-b73e-3f4913d4dab7.1668705958866 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ahead of this year’s UN climate conference, discussions over the responsibility of the world’s richest countries towards developing economies have intensified. Emerging markets’ contribution to climate change is miniscule, but they are disproportionately hurt by its effects. Think of the catastrophic droughts, floods and hurricanes directly linked to man-made climate change that have crashed infrastructure and cost lives and livelihoods across developing countries.With COP27 being hosted by Egypt, and African governments increasingly pushing back against requests to keep fossil fuels in the ground (as this would slow economic growth), will there be new solutions on the negotiation table? Will this be the Africa COP?Silvia chats to James King, one of our correspondents who has recently written about Africa, and to Gillian Marcelle, a development finance expert with sanguine views on the urgency of the issue - and on how to fix it.-You can read James’s deep-dive here: https://www.sustainableviews.com/african-governments-push-to-close-the-climate-funding-gap/This is Gillian’s opinion piece on sustainable finance: https://www.sustainableviews.com/sustainable-investment-is-a-first-world-option/Here are the views of the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance chair Guenther Thallinger: https://www.sustainableviews.com/blended-finance-has-its-time-come/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Silvia and Alison Taylor of NYU Stern School of Business look into the language of sustainability and find it still has a pretty loose grammar and highly convoluted syntax. Most native speakers do not even agree on a common interpretation of environmental, social and governance factors. The good news is: more of us are trying to learn this language. And Alison shares a few tips on how she teaches it too. In the show, Alison mentions a piece she’s written for Sustainable Views. You can find it here https://www.sustainableviews.com/incentivising-esg-what-does-it-really-take/To read more of our articles on ESG policy and regulation, you can register for a free trial here https://survey.ft.com/jfe/form/SV_9RGu5ktcIREwMLA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What can banks learn from the so-called 'growth hacking' of startups? What can B2B learn from B2C? Which banks are hitting a home run with growth and marketing?Our guests are:Isha Chander, head of EMEA marketing, executive director, payments, J.P. MorganLucy Woolfenden, founder, The Scale Up CollectiveShilpa Bangera, chief revenue officer- platform and data, Finastra Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode recorded at Sibos, we talk to the women of Innotribe, the fintech innovation space at the annual transaction banking conference. We learn from founders, CEOs and innovators about how they experience working within this most innovative of financial sectors. Chapter 1 Rebecca Hackworth, head of communications, QuantChapter 2 Marijke Koninckx, chief product officer, Bankifi Chapter 3 Bianca Lopes, founder, Idea Fund Chapter 4 Ulyana Shtybel, CEO, Quoroom Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.