In today’s dynamic banking environment, sustainability has emerged as a critical focus area for banks looking to meet evolving regulations and requirements across the globe. Once a quiet corner of corporate policy, environmental, social and governance, or ESG, initiatives have gained prominence, leading to discussions about their relevance and implementation. As banks navigate changing market conditions and look for ways to drive efficiency improvements, they face a more immediate and unyielding truth: Sustainability is no longer about optics. It’s about survival. Climate risk, digital disruption, and shifting customer expectations are converging, forcing the industry to confront a sobering reality: Evolve or be eclipsed. For banks, sustainability is a blueprint for staying relevant in a rapidly transforming world. It’s essential to recognize that ESG considerations are often perceived differently across the spectrum of stakeholders. The practical challenges facing banks, from rising climate risk to resource volatility and digital disruption, demand a strategic response that transcends partisan lines. This has been made evident by the fact that companies are not dramatically changing their ESG policies despite the heightened rhetoric around the topic. A recent report from the Conference Board found that only 6% of companies are making significant changes to their ESG policies. The reality is that banks are being pulled in multiple directions. Investors demand long-term stability, regulators push for transparency and customers expect purpose-driven brands. Ignoring ESG imperatives may appease one audience but alienate others critical to future growth. For banks, ESG is not just a branding exercise or political statement, but rather a strategic imperative. Sustainability is not a belief system but a set of tools and practices that will help banks survive the next decade. The financial sector is undergoing a profound transformation as climate risk, regulatory pressure and shifting customer expectations redefine the operating environment. Physical threats from climate change now pose tangible risks to banking infrastructure and loan portfolios, forcing institutions to reconsider how they assess and manage exposure. At the same time, regulators around the world are demanding greater transparency and accountability in how firms address sustainability and long-term risk. Adding to the pressure, fintechs and neobanks, unburdened by legacy systems and built on agile, cloud-native architectures, are setting new benchmarks for ESG alignment and digital-first customer experiences. As these challengers gain traction, traditional institutions face a critical inflection point. Without meaningful integration of sustainability into their core strategy, they risk not only falling behind but becoming irrelevant in a market that increasingly rewards purpose-driven, forward-looking players. Banks today must treat sustainability as an adaptive, strategic journey, not just a compliance checkbox. Investors, regulators and customers now expect measurable progress, not just promises. In practice, this means embedding resilience into core operations. For example, banks that invest in climate-resilient infrastructure (from robust IT platforms to green buildings) can shield assets against severe weather and capture long-term value. The World Bank even estimates that every $1 trillion invested in resilient infrastructure yields roughly $4.2 trillion in benefits. In short, forward-looking banks are turning climate risk into an opportunity by setting clear adaptation metrics and funding sustainable projects, building robustness while unlocking new revenue streams. In today’s dynamic banking environment, sustainability has emerged as a critical focus area for banks looking to meet evolving regulations and requirements across the globe. Once a quiet corner of corporate policy, environmental, social and governance, or ESG, initiatives have gained prominence, leading to discussions about their relevance and implementation. As banks navigate changing market conditions and look for ways to drive efficiency improvements, they face a more immediate and unyielding truth: Sustainability is no longer about optics. It’s about survival. Climate risk, digital disruption, and shifting customer expectations are converging, forcing the industry to confront a sobering reality: Evolve or be eclipsed. For banks, sustainability is a blueprint for staying relevant in a rapidly transforming world. It’s essential to recognize that ESG considerations are often perceived differently across the spectrum of stakeholders. The practical challenges facing banks, from rising climate risk to resource volatility and digital disruption, demand a strategic response that transcends partisan lines. This has been made evident by the fact that companies are not dramatically changing their ESG policies despite the heightened rhetoric around the topic. A recent report from the Conference Board found that only 6% of companies are making significant changes to their ESG policies. The reality is that banks are being pulled in multiple directions. Investors demand long-term stability, regulators push for transparency and customers expect purpose-driven brands. Ignoring ESG imperatives may appease one audience but alienate others critical to future growth. For banks, ESG is not just a branding exercise or political statement, but rather a strategic imperative. Sustainability is not a belief system but a set of tools and practices that will help banks survive the next decade. The financial sector is undergoing a profound transformation as climate risk, regulatory pressure and shifting customer expectations redefine the operating environment. Physical threats from climate change now pose tangible risks to banking infrastructure and loan portfolios, forcing institutions to reconsider how they assess and manage exposure. At the same time, regulators around the world are demanding greater transparency and accountability in how firms address sustainability and long-term risk. Adding to the pressure, fintechs and neobanks, unburdened by legacy systems and built on agile, cloud-native architectures, are setting new benchmarks for ESG alignment and digital-first customer experiences. As these challengers gain traction, traditional institutions face a critical inflection point. Without meaningful integration of sustainability into their core strategy, they risk not only falling behind but becoming irrelevant in a market that increasingly rewards purpose-driven, forward-looking players. Banks today must treat sustainability as an adaptive, strategic journey, not just a compliance checkbox. Investors, regulators and customers now expect measurable progress, not just promises. In practice, this means embedding resilience into core operations. For example, banks that invest in climate-resilient infrastructure (from robust IT platforms to green buildings) can shield assets against severe weather and capture long-term value. The World Bank even estimates that every $1 trillion invested in resilient infrastructure yields roughly $4.2 trillion in benefits. In short, forward-looking banks are turning climate risk into an opportunity by setting clear adaptation metrics and funding sustainable projects, building robustness while unlocking new revenue streams.
Socialsuite Socialsuite-ServiceNow partnership delivers unified ESG, risk, and sustainability management platform with AI-driven insights aligned with global compliance standards
Socialsuite, a provider of sustainability risk management software, today announced an integrated solution with ServiceNow, the AI platform for business transformation. This collaboration combines ServiceNow® enterprise ESG and risk management capabilities with Socialsuite’s AI-powered double materiality (financial and impact) and stakeholder engagement platform to help organizations accelerate compliance and further automate sustainability workflows. The integrated offering supports full-spectrum ESG risk management—from stakeholder engagement and materiality assessment to reporting and controls—aligning with global standards including the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and IFRS Sustainability Standards. Partnership Highlights: ServiceNow customers gain access to Socialsuite’s powerful materiality software, offering rapid, AI-enhanced assessments compliant with IFRS (financial materiality) and CSRD (double materiality) requirements. Socialsuite customers can now deploy ServiceNow ESG Management and Integrated Risk Management (IRM) solutions, helping unify governance, risk, compliance (GRC), and sustainability workflows. AI integration will connect Socialsuite’s benchmarking engine with ServiceNow Now Assist for ESG, enabling automated insights and smarter reporting across ESG and risk domains. Joint go-to-market and co-marketing efforts will raise awareness of the unified solution through webinars, events, and cross-sell initiatives. Seth Forman, CEO of Socialsuite. “In partnership with ServiceNow, we’re delivering a scalable, intelligent solution designed for this critical moment – empowering companies to confidently manage their sustainability risks and obligations with a reliable, streamlined process and platform.”
Clarity AI acquires in-app climate engagement platform ecolytiq that analyzes real-time transaction data to quantify environmental footprints and delivers high-impact sustainability content, powered by behavioural science
Clarity AI has acquired ecolytiq to expand the capabilities of its AI-powered platform that helps individuals and organizations make more sustainable choices in their consumption and investments. ecolytiq’s platform, now part of Clarity AI’s suite, specializes in analyzing real-time transaction data to quantify environmental footprints and deliver high-impact sustainability content, powered by behavioural science and designed for measurable impact. Its white-label solutions have enabled banks and financial institutions across Europe and beyond to engage millions of consumers and business clients, fostering climate-positive behavior change through timely and compelling insights. By integrating ecolytiq’s consumer-centric platform, Clarity AI not only strengthens its consumer engagement capabilities, but also expands its reach as a comprehensive, tech-first sustainability provider. As part of the acquisition, Visa, which has a long-term partnership with ecolytiq, has become an investor and strategic partner of Clarity AI. David Lais, co-founder and managing director at ecolytiq, said that the acquisition supports the firm’s mission of helping individuals “drive positive climate impact at scale through their everyday purchasing decisions.”
Temenos ranked the 4th most sustainable company in the world by TIME making it the highest-ranking Swiss company and the only core banking software provider in the top 40
Temenos has been ranked the 4th most sustainable company in the world by TIME magazine and Statista. Featured among 500 global sustainability leaders, Temenos is the highest-ranking Swiss company and the only core banking software provider in the top 40. The TIME ranking evaluates the world’s largest companies across more than 20 performance indicators, including ESG transparency, environmental impact, employee well-being, and corporate governance. Developed in partnership with Statista, the methodology places particular emphasis on companies’ climate commitments aligned with frameworks such as the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), as well as diversity, talent development, and the quality of sustainability reporting.
Supermicro’s data center solution enables deploying liquid-cooled AI infrastructure in three months with 20% lower TCO offering packages of pre-validated floor plans, rack elevations and bill of materials
Supermicro introduced its Data Center Building Block Solutions, designed to simplify the deployment of liquid-cooled AI infrastructure. The offering includes servers, storage, networking, racks, liquid cooling systems, software, services, and support. As an expansion of Supermicro’s System Building Block Solutions, DCBBS adopts a standardized, yet flexible solution architecture, vastly expanded in scope to handle the most demanding AI data center training and inference workloads, enabling easier data center planning, buildout, and operation – all while reducing cost. “Supermicro’s DCBBS enables clients to easily construct data center infrastructure with the fastest time-to-market and time-to-online advantage, deploying as quickly as three months,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. “With our total solution coverage, including designing data center layouts and network topologies, power and battery backup-units, DCBBS simplifies and accelerates AI data center buildouts leading to reduced costs and improved quality.” DCBBS offers packages of pre-validated data center-level scalable units, including a 256-node AI Factory DCBBS scalable unit, designed to alleviate the burden of prolonged data center design by providing a streamlined package of floor plans, rack elevations, bill of materials, and more. Supermicro provides comprehensive first-party services to ensure project success, starting from consultation to on-site deployment and continued on-site support. DCBBS is customizable at the system-level, rack cluster-level, and data center-level to meet virtually any project requirements. Along with DLC-2 technology, DCBBS also helps customers save up to 40% power, reducing 60% data center footprint, and decreasing 40% water consumption, all of which leads to 20% lower TCO. Solutions from Supermicro include up to 256 Liquid Cooled 4U Supermicro NVIDIA HGX system nodes, each system equipped with 8 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (2,048 GPUs in total), interconnected with up to 800Gb/s NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand or NVIDIA Spectrum X Ethernet networking platform. The compute fabric is supported by elastically scalable tiered storage with high-performance PCIe Gen5 NVMe, TCO optimized Data Lake nodes, and resilient management system nodes for continuous uninterrupted operation.
Dots.eco platform enables earning real-world environmental rewards by letting games and apps integrate an API that exposes to over 250 vetted global projects
Dots.eco, a platform for real-world environmental rewards, has emerged as a for-profit company that can help game companies grow their audiences through a common interest in saving the environment. Through the real world rewards program, players can plant trees, protect wildlife, clean oceans, and more, just by reaching milestones, purchasing game items, making website purchases, or completing game missions. The game becomes the conduit for doing good, said Nadav Grosz, CEO of Dots.eco. Dots.eco is a partner in The Playing for the Planet Alliance, an initiative facilitated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The Dots.eco platform exposes an API to over 250 vetted global environmental projects that are constantly monitored, including by satellite imagery analysis, images from the grounds, and reports, analysed by inhouse AI technology. Dots.eco can integrate naturally with many game themes, as it supports a wide range of animal species, habitats and subjects that are present in almost every game. Games integrate the API, or the Dots.eco Unity SDK, and incentivise in-game milestones, or In-App-Purchases. For example, you will save a sea-turtle, or buy 10ft2 of land for wildlife, protect your game hero animal, for downloading the game, reaching a certain level, buying a skin or removing ads. By integrating into games and other apps, the company is building the world’s largest community of impact makers and collectors and are dedicated to converting daily actions into transformative impact for a sustainable future. Players will be able to contribute to real-world restoration projects by progressing through storylines, completing missions, or making purchases, all seamlessly integrated into each game’s theme and mechanics. Past campaigns using Dots.eco’s platform have boosted revenues by over 10%, increased first-time payers by 20%, and increased session time by 25%, all while earning the highest sentiment scores some studios have seen.