Interest in investing in startups and growth businesses with sustainability as a focal point is growing. But there is a lack of knowledge about the field, according to a number of Nordic professional investors.

83% of Nordic impact investors expect their impact portfolio to deliver at or above market rate of return. It is a myth that an investor has to compromise his financial […]

United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals challenge companies and individuals’ way of thinking and doing business. Partnerships are vital for creating the required change, like other startups this is how we have built our business in Suncil. We have learned that the SDG’s are more than a hip branding platform. Most of all it is a global collective narrative on how every company and individual can secure a more sustainable world.

In Kenya the central bank used fintech to innovate government securities to convert sleeping savings into active investments. In China automated credit scoring of SMEs include scoring the greenness of the company. Examples the UN Task Force is touring the world to learn from to inform the Secretary General’s recommendations at the General Assembly on how to make fintech a tool align the financial system with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.

Richard Georg Engström, the initiator to The One Initiative and the Nordic Impact Business Summit in June in Copenhagen, has a mission. He wants to find the first nordic impact unicorn.

BLOG: Blockchain regulations for securities are emerging in more and more countries. This movement will help to unlock trillion of dollars in sleeping savings to cash […]