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2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus reacted with emotion to the victory by Donald Trump in the US presidential elections by telling researchers and students at HEC Paris the win was “a solar eclipse…black days, which must not destroy us and suck our spirit.” As the keynote speaker at the ...
On November 7 2016, the French feminist collective Les Glorieuses called for women workers to go on a symbolic strike at exactly 4.34pm. It lasted exactly seven seconds. According to the collective’s calculations, when compared to their male counterparts, that is precisely the moment this year when ...
Has fintech reached the age of reason? Banking professionals, finance experts, fintech start-up founders and students were invited to partake in the passionate debate that took place at the Second edition of HEC Paris' Fintech Fair on October 20th.
“Only technology can sort out the uncertainty problems that are involved in all fundamental processes.” With these words, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times , Martin Wolf, closed the final session of the daylong Finance4Good conference. Wolf moderated a session which featured five ...
"In 15 or 20 years, you will be in charge of a world that could be better than this one”. The former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Michel Camdessus started his introductory speech for the Finance4Good conference (September 29) by delivering a message of trust and ...
In recent years, banks have lost the trust of customers when they used to be community leaders. Is there a way to turn the situation around? One possible solution could be for the banks to go back to financing the real economy - an economy built on the production and consumption of goods and ...
“Is finance for good?” – asked Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for The Financial Times . The seasoned commentator seemed disillusioned. In response, esteemed guests from the World Bank, Oxford University, and the financial industry, put aside their differences and called for innovation and ...
In December a year will have passed since the celebration of COP21, a conference labeled a success as all 195 countries participating reached a global agreement, the so-called “Paris Agreement”. This aimed to reduce carbon emissions worldwide in order to bring down global warming below the 2°C ...
“If used well, finance can change the world and eliminate poverty.” This remark by panelist Jean Michel Severino seemed to sum up the “Finance to Serve Development” session of Finance4Good conference which brought together distinguished panelists representing different dimensions of investments. HEC ...
Eight years ago, the financial crisis provoked a debate on appropriate regulations needed in order to avoid economic turmoil, a discussion that continues to this day. The deliberations have been fleshed out in the wake of the Dodd-Frank act and the implementation of the Basel Committee work. Recent ...
