Finance and fintech
“Net-zero! Net-Zero! Net-zero!” What you need to know about sustainable marketing with Alexis Eyre
Updated: Mar 10, 2022 Alexis Eyre has changed my work in a hundred tiny little ways. From the images I select to the carbon I emit, her LinkedIn posts push me to do better.
Tartan, Katowice and Greenwashing – An interview with Simon Thompson, CEO of CBI
Updated: Mar 10, 2022 It’s not often you get an email from the CEO of the Chartered Banker Institute. I sat up straighter in my chair to read it. Simon Thompson was looking for
Credit-Union-as-a-Service…? Mbanq and Temenos heat up competition
Updated: Oct 14, 2021 This week some interesting news hit our inboxes. Mbanq and Temenos are launching Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS)… with a difference. Targeting the US’ 5000+ credit unions, the duo is creating the world’s
The double lives of tech companies: Where’s our pension money really going?
Updated: Oct 24, 2021 Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook. The top holdings in one of the world’s most popular Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) funds, the ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF. So they must be
How to greenwash: 9 ways BP tricks sustainable investors
Updated: Sep 13, 2021 Sustainable investors beware! BP may seem like a greener company nowadays, and it features on hundreds of ESG funds. But I believe it is all smoke and mirrors. Like all
Uuuhhhhh… You guys YOLT is shutting down! 😲
Updated: Aug 2, 2022 In a wildcard move, our much-loved smart money app YOLT has decided to close the curtains. They say that their mission is to “give everyone the power to be smart
11 tips for stressed out women to overcome financial anxiety
Updated: Mar 10, 2022 Let me start by saying, it’s not you. It’s the playing field. It’s not f**king level. Over the pandemic, women undertook significantly more housework and childcare than men, often while
My idea for building investment products for wealthy women
Updated: Mar 31, 2023 Ask a child to draw a millionaire twenty years ago, and they’d probably produce a squiggly sketch of middle-aged white man. Most likely, he’d be suited, booted and swinging a
Blue-Winged Mysteries 🦋
Updated: Mar 10, 2022 A new way of writing about ESG and sustainability… I’m calling this short story Blue Winged Mysteries. But it could also be called “Change your pension to something green! Quick!”
“The sustainable investing industry has a habit of self-sabotage”
Updated: Mar 10, 2022 … A super honest interview with James Purcell! James Purcell is the Group Head of ESG, Sustainable and Impact Investing for Quintet Private Bank. But I know him as the
How can we help men get senior roles in finance? My Story 👫
Updated: Jun 29, 2022 Hi! 👋 I’m Duncan Hannah. I’m 30 years old and I live in London. I’ve been working with Wealth Management for around seven years now. Like every ahem *man*, my
How I unwittingly became part of the greenwash machine 🙈🤢
Updated: Jun 10, 2021 This is the problem with publishing your opinions, isn’t it? Sometimes you find out that you got it wrong. A few weeks ago, I wrote this blog to try and