Tomorrow's Capital

Kaszek Ventures has set out to identify and support the next wave of revolutionary technology companies in Latin America. We speak with Hernan Kazah, managing partner and co-founder who is leading Kaszek's efforts. He is also founder of Nasdaq-listed Mercado Libre, the first Latin American company to join a major US index.

You’ve probably noticed more plant-based substitutes on the burger menu lately, and it’s not just your imagination. This is a market that grew by 17 percent to $3.7 billion in the U.S. alone in 2018, according to data from Nielsen and the Good Food Institute. And it’s expanding. We speak with David Lee, CFO of Impossible Foods about how the company now backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and well-known celebrities like Serena Williams and Jay-Z is preparing to “feed the population by 2050.”

As the lead for PRI's activity in the Americas (US, Canada, Latin America), Chris Fowle works to grow and maintain signatory relationships with asset owners, asset managers and service providers. He speaks with Global Head of Sustainability at Nasdaq Evan Harvey about how UN PRI is influencing investors to integrate ESG.

What if we told you that what is good for the planet tends to be good for business? That's a position that Carole Laible, CEO of Domini Investments believes in. At Domini, her team builds mutual funds with competitive financial returns, ecological sustainability and universal human dignity.

Corporations today increasingly find value in environmental and social sustainability. How has reporting on these topics evolved and how do we prepare to advance ESG? We speak with Todd Cort, faculty at Yale School of Management and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Faculty Co-Director at Yale Center for Business and the Environment. 

Calvert Research and Management is focused on allocating capital consistent with environmental, social and governance best practices. Leading the company is John Streur, who has been in the ESG business since 1987. We speak with Streur about how the industry has changed and how the company assesses companies on an ESG scale.

Director of Research at Sustainable Research and Analysis Henry Shilling discusses the evolution of ESG investing, integration, reporting and why green bonds have suddenly become attractive to investors. Join Evan Harvey, Global Head of Sustainability for Nasdaq as they delve into what value-based investing looks like today.

From national park ranger to her current role as Head of ESG Investment at ClearBridge, Mary Jane McQuillen speaks about how ESG has changed in the industry through the last 30 years.

What if we told you ESG investing is growing faster in the U.S. than in Europe? ISS Head of ESG Strategy in the Americas Ariane de Vienne challenges the myth that U.S. lags behind and more on the latest episode of Tomorrow's Capital.   ISS ESG is a global leader in ESG risk and has worked with 1,000+ clients worldwide to cover ESG ratings, rankings and screenings, portfolio analysis solutions, and more.

What does mainstreaming of ESG mean for the future of the industry? Evan Harvey, Global Head of Sustainability discusses with Curtis Ravenel, Global Head of Sustainable Business & Finance at Bloomberg on the first episode of season three of Tomorrow’s Capital.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2018 broke records with $1 billon dollars transacted in mobile payments. Nasdaq’s VP of Global Corporate Communications Allan Schoenberg speaks with the CFO of PayPal John Rainey about the future of mobile payment on a special episode of #TomorrowsCapital.

In this episode, Tom Fay, SVP of Nasdaq's Enterprise Architecture and System Engineering team talks with Balaji Prabhakar, VMware Founders Professor of Computer Science and a faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University during the 16th edition of Nasdaq's biannual Technology of the Future Conference. They discuss self-driving networks, clock synchronization, innovation, and the Cloud.

Jesse McWaters of the World Economic Forum talks about how fintech has disrupted the financial services industry in subtler ways than we had anticipated they would five years ago. For example, data will become not only a huge source of revenue for exchanges, but also an essential tool for training machine learning models.

This episode of Tomorrow’s Capital focuses on the digitalization of crime, including the evolution and future of cybercrime as well as cybercrime trends specifically related to cryptocurriencies and blockchain-based financial instruments. Hypponen also discusses cyber criminals’ use of AI for attack purposes, and the complexity of implementing security regulations.

Podcast from Stockholm for Nasdaq’s 16th bi-annual Technology Of the Future (TOF) conference, where Andy McAfee touches on human behavior and machine learning. Andy’s research investigates how information technology changes the way company’s perform, organize themselves, and compete.  The podcast emphasizes recent, profound developments in machine learning, and the ways technology benefits us, helps us solve important problems, and also teaches us about ourselves and our learning processes.