With their first certified course, Finance for Tomorrow and NEOMA Business School launch a partnership to promote sustainable finance

Published on 26 May 2020 by KarenB

Finance for Tomorrow, a branch of the organisation Paris EUROPLACE, whose aim is to make green, sustainable finance a driving force in the development of the financial centre of Paris, has partnered with the full-time Advanced Master in International Financial Analysis at NEOMA Business School. This partnership will make it possible to significantly enhance teaching focussed on green, sustainable finance in this course, in particular by consolidating the contributions from professionals in the sector. Furthermore, it reinforces the availability of content offering the students real areas of investigation and a supervisory framework for professional theses. The NEOMA course is therefore the first course to be certified by Finance for Tomorrow.

Making our students the players and future decision-makers in the sustainable finance of tomorrow

Finance for Tomorrow, a branch of the organisation Paris EUROPLACE, brings together private, public and institutional players wishing to commit to green, sustainable finance, combining long-term performance and respect for environmental and social criteria. By becoming a partner of the Advanced Master in International Financial Analysis, the organisation will make available to students its expertise in matters of green, sustainable finance. “Our students are the players and future decision-makers in finance to serve the real economy, our society and our planet. We are therefore delighted to have Finance for Tomorrow as a partner for our course,” explains Catherine Karyotis, Head of the full-time Advanced Master in International Financial Analysis at NEOMA Business School.

This new partnership, which takes effect from the start of the 2020 academic year, is fully in line with the activities of Finance for Tomorrow, committed to mobilising the financial ecosystem to reorient finance flows towards a low-carbon, inclusive economy. “We are now bringing together professionals involved in these issues who wish to see finance transformed, and today’s students are the professionals of tomorrow,” adds Anne-Claire Roux, CEO of Finance for Tomorrow. “It is our responsibility to make them aware of these issues, but also to give them the keys to understanding and the tools so that in the future they can themselves be the players in this new finance”.

The partnership between Finance for Tomorrow and NEOMA Business School makes even more sense in the context of a health crisis, where finance must more than ever be at the service of the economy and of the planet. “The financial efforts anticipated after the 2008 financial crisis are still insufficient to transform the economy and align it with the objectives of sustainable development. When we emerge from the unprecedented health emergency we are currently experiencing, it is essential we continue to make significant progress with that dynamic”, emphasises Catherine Karyotis.

Varied synergies within the Advanced Master in International Financial Analysis

Within the framework of this partnership, the members of Finance for Tomorrow will make regular contributions to the teaching content of the programme. “Our experts will lead sessions covering all aspects of sustainable finance, to reinforce knowledge related to Environmental, Social and Governance issues and therefore put them at the heart of the skills of future graduates”, adds Finance for Tomorrow.

The partnership will also be an opportunity for experts from the financial centre of Paris to contribute to the investigative research carried out by students during their course, particularly within the framework of their professional thesis. They will therefore participate in supervising certain theses in the form of professional supervision in collaboration with a professor while making available to students interested in sustainable finance topics, information and contacts to support them in their understanding and mastery of these matters.

“We are certain that the very astute expertise of Finance for Tomorrow and its members in matters concerning the reorienting of finance flows towards a low-carbon, inclusive economy will significantly reinforce the excellence of our course and its relevance in an environment where finance must take the path of sustainability,” concludes Catherine Karyotis.

First course certified by Finance for Tomorrow

This new partnership, devoted to the use of finance for society and its ethics, means that the full-time Advanced Master in International Financial Analysis at NEOMA is the first Master course to be certified by Finance for Tomorrow.

The collaboration between the two players is fully in line with the positioning of the course which has always placed a balance of academic content and professional input at the very centre of its mindset. For fifteen years the programme, devoted to financial analysis for evaluating and managing assets, has helped students develop the key skills necessary to become the decision-makers and financiers of tomorrow, equipped with a true ethical awareness and capable of managing in an environment that has become unstable and complex.