tve welcomes back sponsor Elemental Financial for the 2019 Film Awards

02/09/2019

2 September 2019: Elemental Financial has announced that it is sponsoring the Sustainable Transactions Award, one of six competitive categories in the 2019 tveGlobal Sustainability Film Awards. This award, sponsored by the financial technology payments provider, celebrates the companies around the world using their financial firepower to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The 2008 global financial crisis led to a banking cull,' cutting off many banks in Africa, South America and other territories. London-based Elemental Financial aims to rebuild bridges between developing economies and major banks in the UK, US and Europe by facilitating risk-managed cross-border payments that satisfy rigorous regulatory compliance.

Khalid Talukder, chief operating officer of Elemental Financial, said: We are thrilled to be supporting tve's Sustainable Transactions Award. This important event shines a spotlight on businesses which have gone the extra mile to produce sustainable solutions for the communities most in need.'

The Awards are celebrated at a prestigious annual ceremony, this year taking place on Monday 18 November at The May Fair Hotel, and are open for entries. tve invites companies to submit films about their sustainability initiatives now with reduced entry fees until the early-bird entry deadline on 10 September. The final entry deadline is 10 October 2019. Find out how to enter here.

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Elemental Financial is a new RegTech payments solutions provider, reconnecting emerging markets to the big banks through expertise in cross-border compliance. The company's mission is to deliver sustainable, scalable and practical risk-managed payments solutions to meet clients' needs and expectations. Elemental has developed best in class risk policies, frameworks and procedures, coupled with regulatory technology that manages compliance and overcomes operational inefficiencies. https://elemental.financial

Fastflow Group employs over 1,100 people across the UK and operates within the support services sector. It provides infrastructure maintenance and improvement services to Northumbrian Water and Scottish Water, and a wide range of high pressure gas transmission engineering projects for clients such as National Grid and Cadent Gas. From Thame, Oxfordshire it delivers planned and responsive repairs for housing associations such as A2Dominion, Catalyst Housing, Southern Housing and Karbon Homes, owning around 200,000 homes across the south of the UK.

Fastflow Group has recently merged with United Living, a new and refurbished housing specialist, allowing them to broaden their maintenance and development capability in the property sector.

The company embraces the strategic, competitive advantages of a sustainable business model and conducts its business ethically to make a positive contribution to society. Fastflow Group has supported the tve Awards since 2014 and has been main sponsor since 2015. www.fastflow.co.uk

The annual tve Global Sustainability Film Awards are in now their 8th year. Jennifer Viccars, Octopus Group's brand and marketing director, is president of the 2019 Awards which are now open for entries. Businesses and institutions globally are invited to enter films into the following competitive categories, which focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Companies taking Climate Action, Transforming Society, Sustainable Transactions, Sky: Beyond Plastic, Infrastructures for the Future, and AI and Digital Innovation. tve will also run the nominated categories, The Founder's Award for Sustainability on the Big Screen, an award for feature length films addressing one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals; and the PA Award for Environmental Storytelling. www.gsfa.tve.org

tve is the non-profit based in London that organises the Awards. It creates and enables others to create powerful, effective communications about the environment and sustainable development. Through film, animation, documentaries, debates and social media, the media charity reaches global audiences, giving a voice to a new generation committed to a greener and fairer world. The Awards are tve's main fundraiser each year. www.tve.org

Sky has partnered with tve to sponsor the Beyond Plastic category for a second year. Through Sky Ocean Rescue, Sky is using its voice and reach to inspire simple, everyday changes to stop the oceans from drowning in plastic. Since January 2017 over 45.8 million people are aware of the campaign and 7 million Sky households have changed their attitudes towards single-use plastic. Sky has ambitious plans for future engagement with more ground-breaking content and sports partnerships. As a business, Sky is committed to leading by example and transforming its own business by eliminating all single use plastics from its operations by 2020. It is encouraging and supporting innovation to develop solutions through Sky Ocean Ventures, a �25M venture fund. www.sky.com/

PA has partnered with tve for the PA award for environmental storytelling for the third year. The award recognises television programming - news, current affairs and factual in a range of formats - which best engages the audience with the environment. Established as the Press Association in 1868, PA is the UK's leading provider of multimedia content and services. PA remains the national news agency for the UK and Ireland, serving the major media and digital brands around the world, businesses and public sector organisations. PA's products and services also span pictures, video, data APIs, hosted live blogs, graphics, listings pages, social media curation and page production. The news agency is part of the PA Group of specialist media companies. www.pa.media/

Azad Ayub has founded the new Infrastructures for the Future category for the 2019 Awards. Prior to

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