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As Pandas Thrive, Is Panda Diplomacy Dying Out?

28/02/2025 No Comments

Since 1949, the establishment of the PRC (People’s Republic of China), giant pandas have been “employed” as ambassadors to showcase the goodwill of the Chinese …

How Elon Musk’s Tesla Bonuses are Fuelling a Delaware Exodus in 2025

26/02/2025 No Comments

Delaware’s Court of Chancery, founded in 1792, is one of the oldest legal institutions in ...

Did China’s Yu Renrong Upset Beijing Officials?

24/02/2025 No Comments

The last decade has seen a semiconductor race develop. There is heightened global competition between ...

Can the Lobito Corridor Help the DRC?

14/02/2025 No Comments

In 2023 The United States and the European Union started new efforts to secure access ...

Russian Northern Sea Route opening raises dangers of Arctic environment disaster

July 22, 2021

In May 2020 one of Russia’s worst ecological disasters occurred when a fuel tank owned by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel ruptured, dumping more than 20,000 tons of diesel oil into the Ambarnaya river in the Russian Arctic.

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How can banks finance the transition to net zero?

July 8, 2021

This is the Bankers for Net Zero initiative, set up by All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Fair Business Banking and transformation-focused business advisory firms Volans and Re:Pattern. In particular, they aim to demonstrate how banks and capital can be leveraged to help finance the path to a net-zero future.

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Responsible gold sourcing and the long road from DRC to Dubai

July 1, 2021

Attempts by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) to get to grips with responsible gold sourcing will founder unless it can get to grips with east African supply chains used to move conflict gold in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Dubai.

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Ghana’s sustainable bonds will help government finances more than environment

June 15, 2021

Despite the unpromising medium-term outlook, Ghana should be able to raise the money provided it can meet the conditions set by Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investors, Bohlund says.

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Bank of America Increases Environmental Business Initiative Target to $1 Trillion by 2030

April 8, 2021

The $1.5 trillion goal builds on Bank of America’s longstanding work with clients to provide lending, capital raising, advisory and investment services, as well as develop financial solutions and drive innovation, to spur transformative change.

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Assessing the Sustainability practices of Banks – Mazars launches annual Study

February 26, 2021

The number of banks that foster a culture of sustainability and which have updated their governance structures accordingly is up by half (51%) while there is a similar increase (45%) in the number of banks which now align their disclosures with ESG reporting standards.

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Climate Emergency on the Agenda for Wall Street

January 26, 2021

In the meantime, talks have escalated back in the U.S., with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calling for President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency just today.

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Swiss on a roll with green fintech

January 4, 2021

When it comes to green fintech, Switzerland is on a roll. The Alpine country is stepping up its support for the fashionable holy union of fintech and sustainable investing, with its Federal Council having launched a Green Fintech Network to ‘identify areas in which the conditions for green fintech could be improved’.

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What Disruptive Trends impacted Banking the most in 2020?

December 30, 2020

t’s not just for publicly listed companies anymore, ESG has become an ever more present concept throughout 2020. When Greta Thunberg met Sir David Attenborough on Skype back in January, it didn’t seem as significant as perhaps it does today:

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Why are private asset investors focussing on ESG in 2021?

December 1, 2020

Crucially, once we come out of the other side of the crisis, private asset investors and their portfolio companies are in a unique position to act as change agents to build back stronger economies, and ESG considerations must play an integral part in this rebuilding. Upcoming legislation will no doubt drive the direction in which investors will move regarding ESG strategy but is important to be proactive beyond the regulatory requirements and focus on a strategy that drives change.”

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How is Refinitiv preparing a Red Flag for ESG?

November 12, 2020

“I believe the role of the investment community is also key to making effective change. The more that investors make decisions based on ESG criteria that they can trust, the better it will be for sustainability in the long term.

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EU + ESG: set for a great leap forwards?

July 16, 2020

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Can Aladdin’s ESG issues Save the Climate?

June 12, 2020

Is there a Facebook, UBER, Tesla or Microsoft of Finance? Is there a Google, Netflix, Amazon or Apple of Funds Administration?

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Sustainability with the UK Wealthtech Kingpins

April 16, 2020

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The Answer to Climate Change and Poverty?

February 18, 2020

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3000 pizzas, varied tasks, free trains and PLN 445,000 to win — the third edition of Hackyeah happens in September, and we have free tickets for you!

September 9, 2019

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