ING and UNICEF are building on a 14-year partnership focused on growing opportunity and empowerment through this pilot initiative.
Recognizing that real social change entails group efforts across the private and public sector, longtime collaborators ING and UNICEF are conducting an investment pilot that seeks to leverage emerging technologies into opportunities for children, young people and families.
The joint call for fintech solutions is a new approach to unlock ways to empower youth; by identifying inclusive fintech solutions and supporting them to scale, with ING’s finance and business expertise and UNICEF’s context knowledge and convening power, we can innovate to close service gaps, reduce financial barriers to skills training and opportunities, and help youth and families rise out of poverty.
ING is a global financial institution with a strong European base, offering banking services through its operating company ING Bank.
The purpose of ING Bank is empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. ING Bank’s more than 53,000 employees offer retail and wholesale banking services to customers in over 40 countries.
ING Group shares are listed on the exchanges of Amsterdam (INGA AS, INGA.AS), Brussels and on the New York Stock Exchange (ADRs: ING US, ING.N).
Sustainability forms an integral part of ING’s strategy, evidenced by ING’s ranking as Leader in the banks industry group by Sustainalytics and ‘A’ rating in MSCI’s ratings universe. ING Group shares are included in major sustainability and Environmental, Social and governance (ESG) index products of leading providers STOXX, Morningstar and FTSE Russell.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. At UNICEF, innovation is about taking emerging approaches and tools, and testing how they can be applied across contexts. If successful, they can be scaled to positively impact children and young people around the world.
The widening gulf between rich and poor, rapid urbanization, climate change, and the rapid pace of technological change requires us to adapt and create new solutions to confront the challenges facing children today. UNICEF believes that new approaches, partnerships, and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.
With the support of Arm through the UNICEF and Arm partnership
Since 2015, UNICEF and Arm have been seeking to unlock the life-saving potential of technology by discovering and inspiring new technology to solve the most complex problem facing the world’s children, now and in the future.
