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Clearing leads the way to sustainable financial markets
Responsible for the transaction processing, financial logistics and risk management of millions of securities transactions every day, global top three clearing house ABN AMRO Clearing chooses to wield its influence to boost financial market robustness and transparency. Vicky Sins, Global Director Corporate Hedgers, is helping to steer the sustainable transition on behalf of Clearing.
Matching investors with sustainable start-ups
On the ABN AMRO Sustainability Pitch Day, start-ups and growing businesses present themselves to ABN AMRO’s investor network. An investor in the audience and three participating entrepreneurs tell us more about these new businesses.
Sustainability gets academic boost
While new ABN AMRO investment clients are offered sustainable investing as standard, interest from existing clients in this type of investment is also growing. It’s up to private bankers and investment advisers to discuss sustainability with clients. ABN AMRO invests in a sustainable world and is providing its staff with additional knowledge about sustainable investment by means of an education programme.
Pulling out of palm oil altogether won’t solve anything
ABN AMRO has dealings with a number of large palm oil producers. Yet the bank also does much to prevent or curb the negative effects of unsustainable palm oil production. “We can achieve much more as a committed discussion partner than we could if we abandoned the sector completely,” explain Friso Koopmans and Wijbrand Fabius, who recently sat down to answer six questions about palm oil and ABN AMRO’s policy.
Richard Reporting – what do Financial Coaches do?
In Richard Reporting, Richard Kooloos, Head of Sustainable Banking, drops in on colleagues to talk to them about how they personally are making sustainability a reality. In this video, he speaks to Financial Coaches Annet ten Wolde and Jolanda Engelenburg-Pen.
Human Rights Conference: innovations in due diligence
As a lender, it’s important that the bank knows what impact or risk a given loan will have in terms of human rights. But that depends on sufficient and reliable information, which isn’t always available. At the fifth ABN AMRO Human Rights Conference, a range of experts including innovators, data providers, investors and ESG professionals discussed this very issue.