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“JUMP into Green Investment” rewarded at the A-Team Insight Innovation Awards

“JUMP into Green Investment” rewarded at the A-Team Insight Innovation Awards

  The innovative JUMP into Green Investments solution enables the Investment Management industry to rapidly move and grow toward Green Finance. Fully embedded in JUMP’s...
What is Ethereum, and how can it become the future of blockchain?

What is Ethereum, and how can it become the future of blockchain?

By Zoltan Vardai Despite Bitcoin’s domination of the global cryptocurrency market and its huge market cap, Ethereum, which arrived on the scene only in 2015, is...
Amro Partners launches Venture Capital arm with investment in Proptech start-up Coadjute

Amro Partners launches Venture Capital arm with investment in Proptech start-up Coadjute

Amro aims to invest in and support segment-defining proptech and fintech start-ups that positively impact the built environment sector Key themes include end-user experience, financial...
Lack of data is single greatest challenge for UK financial sector to address climate risk over next five years, reveals new survey

Lack of data is single greatest challenge for UK financial sector to address climate...

  The availability of data is the single greatest test firms expect to face over the next five years in order to address climate risk, according...
Pexapark makes quant engine available to "level the playing field" in renewable energy PPA negotiations

Pexapark makes quant engine available to “level the playing field” in renewable energy PPA...

Pexapark announces today that it is making its advanced ‘quant’ data and analytics - used to price and optimise over 11GW of renewable energy...
Previsico wins prestigious cross-sector ‘Innovation of the Year’ award at the British Data Awards 2021

Previsico wins prestigious cross-sector ‘Innovation of the Year’ award at the British Data...

  Previsico, which aims to become the leading global provider of cutting-edge flood prediction, won the award for delivering the very latest third generation flood...
Fintech and retail banking firms urged to get involved in Water Breakthrough Challenge

Fintech and retail banking firms urged to get involved in Water Breakthrough Challenge

  ·        The £40 million Water Breakthrough Challenge aims to spark ambitious innovation and enable new approaches and ways of working to address the big challenges facing the...
ekko, the transformative app that turns the tide on climate change, launches with Mastercard Customers will save a bottle from entering the ocean with every 5 transactions and plant a tree every 50 transactions ekko is the first UK fintech to join the Mastercard Priceless Planet Coalition 20 April, 2021, – LONDON, United Kingdom – ekko, an innovative new app, debit card and ecosystem that turns the tide on climate change, has today launched in the UK with a strategic partnership with Mastercard. The launch comes as new research from Mastercard shows two in five Brits (43%) see reducing their carbon footprint more important now than pre-pandemic. In a first of its kind proposition, ekko has taken existing business models and transformed them into a driver for good by combining fintech, marketplace, open banking and retail into one transformative app that makes it effortless to make a tangible difference to climate change, without the consumer needing to do anything different. ekko customers can go about their daily lives as they usually would, shopping, buying a coffee or paying bills and their good vibes will echo around the world. Using the iconic ekko debit card, every 5 transactions a customer makes will pay for one plastic bottle being collected before it enters our oceans and every 50 transactions will pay for a tree to be planted by the customer. Customers can track their own personal forest, how many bottles they’ve collected and even monitor their own personalised carbon footprint using their Carbonmeter in the ekko app. It also gives customers access to a curated list of sustainable partners, offering climate-friendly goods and services as part of the wider ‘enviroconomy’. ekko have partnered with Mastercard to launch the debit card and will become the first UK fintech to join the Mastercard Priceless Planet Coalition, launched last year with a commitment to plant 100 million trees by 2025. The team have big ambitions and together aim for ekko customers to plant over 50m trees and prevent over 500m bottles entering our ocean over the next 5 years. The waitlist is now open, with ekko issuing its first cards in June on a first come first serve basis. Potential customers can join the waitlist at ekko.earth Oli Cook, co-founder and CEO of ekko said “We’re excited about launching ekko today. We knew that to make a difference we needed to re-write existing models and build a new eco-system that made it effortless to make a real and tangible difference. We needed to create something where every one of our customers can see what they themselves are doing to help climate change, without actually needing to do anything different. “With Mastercard’s support, we’re positive about the future and the impact our customers can have on the world.” Scott Abrahams, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Mastercard UK & Ireland added “At Mastercard we are focused on building a future that is both more inclusive and more sustainable, and we are thrilled to have been chosen by ekko to partner with them as they make it easier for people to make a difference to the environment while going about their everyday lives. By embedding sustainability into every transaction, we can empower even more consumers to better understand the impact of their purchases and turn that into meaningful action for the planet.”

ekko launches with Mastercard making it effortless for consumers to take action on climate...

ekko, the transformative app that turns the tide on climate change, launches with Mastercard Customers will save a bottle from entering the ocean...
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Manuel Silva Martinez, General Partner of Mouro Capital comments on bitcoin’s environmental impact

A single transaction of bitcoin has the same carbon footprint as 680,000 Visa transactions or 51,210 hours of watching YouTube. I am getting in touch...
MAPFRE and Iberdrola join forces in a strategic alliance to invest together in renewable energy in Spain

MAPFRE and Iberdrola join forces in a strategic alliance to invest together in...

  MAPFRE and Iberdrola are collaborating closely in the energy area having signed a strategic alliance to make joint investments in renewable energies in Spain....

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