Finextra sets webinar on social banking and regenerative finance

Finextra Research will hold an online webinar on 1 September 2026 examining how social banking, regenerative finance and community-led innovation could be developed into more durable financial infrastructure. The session is scheduled for 15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST and 10:00 EDT, ahead of the Sustainable Finance Live 2026 hackathon.

The webinar will focus on financial models intended to serve underserved groups and local economies, according to Finextra Research. The organiser said the discussion will consider how community participation can shift people and local institutions from being recipients of financial services toward a more active role in financial decision-making.

Finextra Research said the session will look at approaches including commitment pooling and social banking. In general terms, commitment pooling refers to arrangements in which participants coordinate resources or obligations around shared aims, while social banking places greater emphasis on social outcomes and community benefit in the provision of financial services. Finextra framed both as models with potential relevance for local economic resilience.

The webinar is tied to Sustainable Finance Live 2026’s hackathon, where participants are expected to use open-source platforms and shared infrastructure to develop practical tools. Finextra Research said the hackathon format will be used to test ways to exchange value, mobilise resources and design more inclusive financial systems.

The event agenda centres on three questions set out by Finextra Research: how community-led approaches can reshape financial systems for underserved groups and local economies; what solutions can emerge from open-source tools, community data and collaborative work; and how regenerative finance and community investment models can move beyond local pilots.

Regenerative finance is presented by Finextra Research as part of a broader effort to embed social and environmental value into future financial infrastructure. The webinar will examine whether local experiments in community investment can be connected and scaled into systems with real-world application.

Richard Peers, founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor at Finextra, is listed as moderator for the session. Finextra Research said a panel of industry experts will discuss the scaling of regenerative finance and community investment models, although further speaker names were not listed in the announcement.

Registration for the webinar is being handled through Finextra’s event page. The registration form requests professional details including business email address, name, job title, organisation, country and institution type, and includes options for receiving further communications from Finextra and third parties.

This story draws on original reporting from Finextra Research.