Chinese Philosopher Confucius once said, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” This adage truly resembles the journey of Cecilia Repinski, CEO, and Founder of Green Assets Wallet. A passionate leader, Cecilia loves her job and through technology aims at making a major transformational impact on the future. Known for her bold yet grounded leadership style, Cecilia envisions a future where finances will be powered by technology. Cecilia has a vision of being a part of the technological revolution that will not only lead to people having unlimited financial access but also to prosperity and a sustainable society.
In conversation with Aspioneer Cecilia Repinski reveals why she see capital as energy in the global economy and how her company is working to create real-world positive impact.
The inception saga
Cecilia Repinski: “I have always been passionate about a sustainable trajectory for life on Earth. In my previous career, I have worked with sustainable finance in different forms; as an advisory to the World Bank, IFC, Inter-American Development Bank to ESG analysis for leading asset managers amongst other positions. Throughout my work-life, and regardless of platform, I have always had one foot in research and innovation and one in practice, for example, bridging scientific knowledge with daily investment decisions. However, there has been one question on my mind throughout my previous career: How do we ensure sustainable finance leads to actual results in the real economy? Only then will capital be able to truly deliver on a sustainable trajectory for Earth. Therefore, my core belief is credible and trusted impact. That is why I founded Green Assets Wallet -to unleash global capital at scale for the transition into a better Earth. Green Assets Wallet was launched in 2019. It was co-created by a unique consortium of leading capital market actors, green finance experts, and technology innovators formed under the lead of Stockholm Green Digital Finance. It later fledged into the company it is today. Green Assets Wallet is designed to inject efficiency and transparency into the green debt market and unleash capital at scale. The objective is to accelerate the market for green investments using emerging technology in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Our headquarters are in Sweden and we have team members working across Europe, from Germany to Macedonia.”
Transforming debt capital market
Cecilia Repinski: “Green Assets Wallet sets a new standard in terms of how we do business in debt capital markets. Green Assets Wallet makes it easy to drive capital to solutions that are needed to have an impact in the world. It serves all actors in the debt capital system to have a transformational impact for further action and investment. We support all these actors which include issuers, investors, and validators of sustainable assets to generate quantifiable real at-scale impact. We act as a catalyst to drive capital flow towards decarbonized, sustainable, and just societies and economies. We also provide the innovation required in areas such as finding sustainable projects, allocating capital, and how they can report on impact for true, at-scale, net zero-aligned climate impact. It provides a complementary but dramatically different approach to how we report on impact from the one that has been taken conventionally by institutional investors and issuers to date.”
