More and more application domains, from financial market analysis to weatherprediction, from monitoring supermarket purchases to monitoring satellite images, arebecomingly increasingly data-intensive. The result is massive databases that are growingat a rapid rate - it has been estimated that...

Impact investing has grown significantly over the past 15 years. From a niche investing segment with only $25 billion AUM in 2013 (WEF 2013), it experienced double-digit growth and developed into a market with an estimated $502 billion AUM (Mudaliapar and Dithrich 2019). Despite the growth and...