Turin, birthplace of Italy’s beloved Fiat 500, prides itself today on being a fertile ground for innovation, allowing nascent tech companies to test and develop ideas for the cities of the future. Intesa Sanpaolo supports this, having paired wi

How AI can superpower finance

Apr 16th, 2021 15m 44s

At the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center’s AI Lab, the team has developed proprietary software that superpowers market risk assessment. Listen to the podcast to find out more about the department and the project, plus what AI can do for busines

Jaron Lanier: the social media model is a threat to us all

Mar 3rd, 2021 12m 11s

Jaron Lanier helped to create virtual reality, so he’s no technophobe. Yet today he wants to spread the word that social media in its current form is harming all of us – from individual mental health all the way up to plurality in politics and

Banking in tough times: climate change, Brexit and Covid-19

Dec 22nd, 2020 16m 46s

2020 has thrown a lot at the world generally – and business and finance are no exception. Covid-19 has stalled business investment and Brexit looms over the eurozone. But the issue of climate change eclipses all of this. Stefano Del Punta, Inte

Artemisia Gentileschi: great painter revealed

Nov 18th, 2020 22m 57s

Despite deep personal challenges, Artemisia Gentileschi became a master painter in 17th-century Europe, a storyteller who brought a unique angle to her subjects, getting under their skin to bring them to life in paint. A new exhibition, sponsor

Trend forecasting post Covid-19

Nov 3rd, 2020 12m 17s

Trend analysis is one of three Innovation Center departments at Intesa Sanpaolo, working in synergy with the AI lab and neuroscience lab to help predict the shape of the future and pass that knowledge on to clients. But how can it predict the

Europe’s plan for a cleaner future

Oct 19th, 2020 19m 35s

The European Commission has set out a 35-point action plan to help transform business to a Circular Economy by 2030. In this podcast, we hear from Joanna Drake, deputy director-general for mobility and environment at the European Commission, an

Da Vinci’s code, revealed by neuroscience

Jul 30th, 2020 16m 13s

Inside the Museo del Cenacolo Vinciano, a team set up by Intesa Sanpaolo used a variety of sense-tracking devices to measure neurological response to The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci. Listen to hear their findings and discover why a bank ha

Pirelli is on the road to a greener future

Jul 13th, 2020 18m 17s

In April 2020, Intesa Sanpaolo announced it would be working with another of Italy's most famous names to advance the Circular Economy. The Italian bank has lent €200m to tyre-maker Pirelli under strict circular conditions, part of a wider €800

Covid-19 and the macroeconomic fallout

Jul 8th, 2020 15m 48s

Nothing in our lifetimes has had a greater or more rapid economic impact than the Covid-19 crisis. Its effects have been felt faster and by more people than even the crisis of 2008. How will it play with the already strained relationships of th

Nature is our inspiration for change

Jun 4th, 2020 18m 32s

Two years ago, the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design opened an outpost in Costa Rica. From the outside, this might appear to be a random office move. But, explains Simona Maschi, co-founder and director of the CIID, Costa Rica is the p

Circular Economy Lending: building a new world through finance

May 11th, 2020 15m 26s

Two years ago, Intesa Sanpaolo launched a €5bn loan fund for businesses and projects supporting the Circular Economy. It has been highly successful, with €1.2bn loaned to 95 such initiatives. In this episode, three people behind sustainability

Designing circular cities

Mar 18th, 2020 15m 39s

What would a circular city look like? It would run on renewable energy and have buildings that can change their function and the way they work over time. We would have shared transport facilities, no single-use passenger vehicles, and there wou

Canova and Thorvaldsen: rival neo-classicist sculptors

Dec 18th, 2019 16m 11s

A new exhibition in Milan brings together for the first time the works of Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and the younger Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), who were both contemporaries and rivals. Canova and Thorvaldsen were both neo-cla

China’s Greater Bay Area holds the key to future business

Dec 17th, 2019 18m 12s

Alessandro Vitale is head of Intesa Sanpaolo’s Hong Kong branch and its Asia-Pacific hub. He stresses the sheer size of the opportunity for Italian, British and other European business in the Greater Bay Area – taking in Guangdong, Hong Kong an

The Italian designer denim manufacturer helping the fashion industry clean up its act

Nov 26th, 2019 13m 52s

It takes 23,000 litres of water to make a single T-shirt and a pair of jeans. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Candiani Denim – an Intesa Sanpaolo customer that supplies the popular material for numerous high-end brands – works with high tec

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on AI and tech’s unparalleled pace of change

Nov 15th, 2019 14m 49s

AI, blockchain, crypto, micro payments, regtech and insurtech are all shifting the working processes of banks. This year, Intesa’s Novathon has evolved from a hackathon for new technologies into a conference focused on innovation and culture tr

The Italian car parts company that’s been using circular economy methods since 1939.

Nov 1st, 2019 16m 30s

In the automotive sector, there’s an estimated $400bn to $600bn worth of revenue opportunity in the reworking of old parts. Yet the principles of the circular economy are still largely ignored in the everyday business of large automotive manufa

The Italian Way To A Circular Economy: Momentum for the green revolution

Sep 3rd, 2019 19m 29s

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is on a mission to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Intesa Sanpaolo has been a global partner of the Foundation since 2015 as its financial services lead. With that commitment extended this year, w

From Clay to Algorithm. A connection that dates back centuries.

Jul 26th, 2019 15m 39s

The relationship between art and technology is celebrated in a unique exhibition, From Clay to Algorithm. It is a collaboration between Intesa Sanpaolo and the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art near Turin. The third episode of the I

The Italian way to a circular economy: Taking a bite out of the circular economy

Jul 16th, 2019 18m 51s

How can we fulfil our most basic needs without destroying our planet at the same time?In this second episode of our series on The Italian Way to a Circular Economy, we look at how producers and consumers are changing the way they think about fo

The Italian way to a circular economy: A world without waste

Jul 7th, 2019 17m 47s

Imagine a world without waste, a virtuous loop of reuse and regeneration.In this first episode of our series on The Italian Way to A Circular Economy, we look at how Intesa Sanpaolo is helping to build a circular economy. From the Italian embas

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