Clarisse Simonek discusses why investment strategies are changing, with the rise of ‘unhedgeable risk’, and financial institutions are increasingly reporting on the impact on biodiversity

Ed Cox, Executive Director, Strategy, Economy & Net Zero at West Midlands Combined Authority, outlines some ideas on how the West Midlands might boost productivity and drive inclusive growth

Dieter Helm explains why it is so important for the planet to have a sustainable economy and outlines the often radical ways to achieve such an outcome

Martina Garcia reflects on generative AI and worries about how it could affect financial services

Ouida Taaffe introduces this special series of articles on biodiversity and how it relates to financial services

Sir Partha Dasgupta, who led a landmark review of the economics of biodiversity, tells Paul Wallace why the financial sector must put biodiversity centre stage

In France, new planting and biological control methods are returning biodiversity to vineyards, Emmanuel Monnier reports

George Graham looks at the difficulties of assessing the risk that biodiversity loss represents to pension fund investments

Chris Newlands talks to asset managers who have signed the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge

Beth Brearley explains why an appreciation of the business value of healthy soil is starting to emerge

Andy Davis discusses why nature risk needs to be integrated into the financial system and looks at some of the ways the sector can protect biodiversity

Natasha de Terán highlights the problems of rewilding in Wales, where successfully creating such landscapes will depend very much on achieving local consensus

Banks are now required to measure nature loss and the risks it poses to the financial system. This will mean a shift in the hiring patterns of banks, Sarah Butcher reports

Frances Coppola discusses whether banks need to be made safer, or even if they are still needed, but says the alternative solutions appear to be much worse

Richard Northedge explains why there are various different crises in the property market and suggests ways to solve some of them

The decision to put the regulation of buy now, pay later on hold has been criticised but the industry appears to be cleaning itself up with new rules, Charles Orton-Jones reports

As Google and other technology giants move into financial services, how can regulators rein in algorithms that prey on our data? It won’t be easy, says Adriana Hamacher

Christopher Alkan explains why financial regulators are starting to keep a more watchful eye on the risks posed by the growth of shadow banking

Payments providers across Europe are preparing themselves for more change as, seven years after PSD2, the EU has finally published its draft PSD3 proposals. Tim Green explores what it is likely to mean

Ouida Taaffe quizzes the co-founders of BondAuction about why they believe their new start-up can offer a different and more efficient service to smaller investors

Keyur Patel analyses the latest findings of the CSFI Insurance Banana Skins survey and finds that cyber crime and climate change are keeping insurers awake at night

Nadim Choudhury advises on how to cope with the challenges of collaborating with colleagues while working remotely

Deborah Sabalot discusses what a recent High Court decision on the definition of ‘knowingly concerned’ means for the directors of financial services firms

David Birch examines the growing scourge of synthetic identity fraud and shows how technology such as digital wallets can help firms foil these ‘Frankenfraudsters’

>Number Go Up, by Zeke Faux >The 100 Trillion Wealth Transfer, by Ken Costa >You May Never See Us Again, by Jane Martinson