It’s a different type of capital markets

The World’s First Stock Exchange was in Bruges, Belgium in the 14th century.

Since then the stock exchange has undergone transformational change and evolution. Having spent several years on Wall Street, I have my own personal impressions of the Wall Street exchange and the bank’s trading floors and capital markets. I experienced one version of it first hand.

It is particularly exciting for me to be returning to capital markets where businesses with social and environmental impact are invested in, given a valuation by global research firms, a rating or score card by ratings agencies, and even traded. It is a joy to help build an alternative capital markets where social and environmental companies are not viewed as inefficient business models.