Finance Innovation Lab team member Jen Morgan captures inspiring insights and trends from a recent impact investment event. Enabling impact. This was the focus for 250 leading incubators, entrepreneurs and accelerators of change earlier this month in Amsterdam. We gathered for the 3rd Annual PYMWYMIC (Put Your Money Where Your Meaning Is Community) Impact Days. [...]
Richard Spencer, Head of Sustainability at The Institute of Chartered Accountants, challenges ‘the professions’ to demonstrate they are worthy to continue to exist. What is a profession? Is it just a collective noun for a group of people who have degrees, earn a lot of money and run a private members club; or does [...]
An Oxford University expert on gender issues in the developing world sits next to a leader of the organic food movement in the UK and opposite a suited, shaven headed gentleman who works on systems change in finance. Eyes are fixed, heads turned, pens poised, as a blonde American lady shares her story of leading [...]
As part of a series on systemic innovation, published by Nesta, The Finance Innovation Lab was invited to tell the story of its evolution and learning. The article charts a path from an early meeting on a hot sunny day in May 2009 when the Lab began a journey into the unknown, to its position [...]
AuditFutures is capturing the passion and commitment of a diverse community and emerging as the voice of innovation in audit. In a modern world of growing information disclosure and rapid technological innovation, the content and scope of audit must evolve. This will ensure the relevance of audit-for-business decisions in an environment of greater complexity and [...]
The Peer-to-Peer Finance Policy Summit explored the role of regulation in the growth of non-bank finance for consumers and small businesses. Over 80 people attended, including the chief executives of more than 15 peer-to-peer finance platforms, as well as trade body representatives, academics, policy-makers and regulatory officials. Download the summary of the day to get [...]
