Innovation Challenges

How can we build a solution within the Green Real Estate industry that will ring-fence capital allocated to the project for further on-lend or matching to downstream sub-contractors and suppliers who will need funding throughout the course of the project?

Given the increased interest in passive investments, how might we build a robo-advisor that focuses on optimising a portfolio for superior risk-adjusted returns ESG-equities, bonds, and indices? 

How might we utilise a platform that enables investors and retail consumers to make sustainability considerations either in their respective (i) personal consumption or (ii) investment decision- making process and/ SDG investment portfolio building? 

How might we enable a better understanding of the value and impact of green investments to private wealth clients by utilising new technology (e.g., AR and VR) in an intuitive manner? 

How can we incentivise traditional capital markets to promote green finance offerings to SMEs?

How might we use an AI engine to summarise research reports from various sources, on either companies or themes like green and transition efforts, against a given set of accessible and quantifiable criteria, to overcome manual and tedious consolidation of research reports for assessment purposes?

How might we incentivize the acceleration of mainstreaming and adoption of sustainable bonds for central banks and larger institutional investors?

How can we leverage technology to broaden and/or streamline the due diligence and risk assessment process for science-oriented ESG private markets such as deep technologies and nature based solutions?

How can we leverage technology to increase the distribution (primary) and liquidity (secondary) for ESG instruments (e.g. green bonds, deep technologies, nature based solutions)?

How can we leverage technology to more efficiently create, structure and service ESG-linked digital products (e.g., sustainability-linked bonds, sustainability-linked structured products)?

How might we leverage tech solutions to reward home insurance customers who are actively taking steps to adopt sustainable practices in their homes?

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How might we leverage technology to monitor agri-insurance customers' impact on the environment and better advise them on their farm management practices?

How may we better match the actions or purchase decisions made by consumers to the sustainability goals they wish to achieve?

How might we develop a true SDG measurement utility or measurement platform that banks can utilise to enable and promote SDG conscious investment and banking products?

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How may we include green indicators as factors in a credit underwriting score at scale for varying organisations of different sizes and geographies, while maintaining the data verification & reliability standards of traditional financial credit underwriting?

How might we bridge the gap and enable decision makers to access real-time environmental data from asset owners to enable effective tracking of environmental impact, progress towards achieving ESG targets and advance policy development areas such as green financing?

How might we assess or identify carbon offsetting efforts through the use of land or land reclamation, and use that information as a factor into investment decisions?

How might we create a standardised tool for companies to set their own SDG-related or other ESG impact targets and follow-up on their progress, where those targets and progress measures may also be accessed by asset managers or private equity funds interested in investing in those companies?

How might we extend ESG and green signals coverage in small cap companies through the volunteering and gathering of information on businesses or products and structuring data inputs while still including information that proves transparency, thereby allowing deeper analysis by investors?

How might we better measure environmental risks on the properties that are underwritten by insurers to better inform pricing and claims practices?

How might market participants leverage market benchmarks such as sustainability indices or risk ranking, to keep companies on track with their environmental commitments?

How can we build a solution that can help conduct negative screens near real-time to monitor accumulation of sensitive exposures such as coal and tobacco for corporates, insurers and reinsurers?

How can companies use technology like IoT sensors to enable timely tracking of carbon footprint across the supply chain & measure progress towards emission targets?

How can companies gain a reliable and cost-efficient data source outlining emissions from supply chain through the use of technologies?

How can we build a solution in the Green Real Estate space, to evidence that the use of Green financing, debt and working capital within the Project is green?

How might we source and streamline upstream carbon footprint data points, in order to increase the transparency of carbon footprint data and allow investors to better compare relevant carbon activity across companies, supply chain and products?

How can we simplify the costs involved in monitoring, collecting, and publishing ESG data?

How may we develop a rating tool or platform that uses credible methodologies that considers all types of ESG activities for corporates, insurers and reinsurers?

How may we build a solution that standardises sustainability reports across regions and industries to enable investors to benchmark Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs)?

How might we consolidate an ESG portfolio score for Wealth Management clients, to enable them to better understand their investment decisions and for relationship managers to suggest greener alternatives?