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The Green Bank - an opportunity for innovation in the Financial Services

August 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Our recent blog on the move towards a Green Bank has been explored further by our colleagues at Mckinsey in a recent article in the Mckinsey Quarterly.
The underlying hypothesis that we put forward was that climate change will be a massive wealth creation event, not a wealth destruction event. This argument is now starting to [...]

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Tags: Cleantech · Financial services · Sustainability · environment

Mature markets - managing for status quo?

July 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I had an interesting discussion today with a colleague on the plight of the financial services industry. He was of the opinion, and we were talking about retail consumer finance, that the market was mature and as a result, there wasn’t much opportunity for new growth.
“How many more credit cards do people really need?” he [...]

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Tags: Financial services · mature markets · utilities