Banking in the Era of Sustainability

Banks must demonstrate impeccable sustainability credentials and one way of doing that is by closing large in-house data centers to move to a hybrid compute environment

Sustainability in banking. (Credit: Bethany Drouin from Pixabay)

In the latest episode of Future Banking TV, we explore why sustainability is now a key issue in modern banking. Banks must demonstrate impeccable sustainability credentials and one way is by closing large in-house data centers to move to a hybrid compute environment. We visit Paris to meet leading financial institution BNP Paribas CIB. Chief Sustainability Officer, Constance Chalchat, outlines the bank’s approach.

We then visit Iceland where natural advantages in terms of renewable energy make leading Icelandic data center operator atNorth potentially a excellent partner for banks to locate a portion of their global server footprint. We meet Ricardo Jantarada, the bank’s Head of Telecom & Datacenter Operations as well as Gisli Kr, Chief Commercial Officer of atNorth.

Also in Iceland, in something of a coup, we interview Minister for Foreign Affairs, Thordis Kolbrun, on how the Government of Iceland’s commitment to promoting innovation across all spheres of enterprise gels so well with Iceland’s natural advantages to make the country an ideal location for data centers.