Sustainable Finance
The Green Investment Puzzle
Investors are eager to spend trillions on energy transition, but too much money is piling into mature projects, while high-risk...
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Private Market Assets For The Masses
It used to be tough investing in private market assets. Typically, at least a couple of hundred thousand dollars was...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Navigating The New Trade Order
As global trade fractures in 2025, companies face rising tariffs, supply chain turmoil, and shifting economic dynamics. Geopolitical pressures are...
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COP 27: Time to Accelerate Global Climate Action
COP 27 comes at a critical time. The world is facing immediate and significant challenges. Not only has the last seven years been the warmest on record, but the Russian-Ukraine War has created serious cereal and foodstuff shortages for numerous countries, including many in Africa, and the sharp rise in energy prices have impacted costs, people’s incomes, and growth. Geopolitical risk has focused more attention on climate change.
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: Global And Country Winners
A record year for sustainable bonds, but is the global compact cracking? For sustainable finance, 2024 was the best of...
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: Asia-Pacific
Across Asia, banks are deeply embedding adherence to both general ESG principles and the UN Sustainable Development Goals into their...
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: Middle East
The Persian Gulf states’ transition to a low-carbon future is driven by their governments’ efforts at diversification and collaboration. All...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CFO Corner: Anne-Laure Autret-Cornet, OSE Immunotherapeutics
Since 2016, Anne-Laure Autret-Cornet has been the CFO of OSE Immunotherapeutics, a biotech dedicated to immuno-oncology and immuno-inflammation. The Nantes,...
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Sustainable Banking for Palestines Real Economy
Palestine’s sustainable banking leader for 62 years, Bank of Palestine (BoP) represents the future of banking with high-impact sustainable finance initiatives, gender & financial inclusion, and digital innovation. Mahmoud Shawa, BoP’s CEO, discusses the bank’s strategic commitment to sustainability and its role supporting Palestine’s economic growth and climate change goals.
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Turkey Turns Green: Q&A With Akbank CEO Kaan Gür
Akbank CEO Kaan Gür offers his views on Turkey’s shifting sustain-ability agenda and why his bank has adapted its ESG...
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Banks Boost Transition To Energy Finance: Q&A With Standard Bank CIB’s Sasha Cook
Sasha Cook, head of Sustainable Finance at Standard Bank CIB, explains how domestic banks are helping to close the energy-investment...
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: North America
North America did passably well in sustainable finance in 2024, but it didn’t feel that way—not at the end of...
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: Africa
According to the UN, Africa’s population is expected to double by 2070, having recently crossed 1.5 billion; among that population,...
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Strategic Partner to West Africa’s Growing SME Sector
Bridge Bank Group Côte d’Ivoire (BBG CI) has emerged as a major player in the nation’s banking industry and a supportive financial partner to the region’s economically important SME sector. Ehouman Kassi, BBG CI’s CEO, discusses the bank’s new portfolio guarantee agreement with the African Guarantee Fund and expansion of its successful SME strategy.
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Sustainable Finance Awards 2025: Central And Eastern Europe
Last year saw Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) make further progress in sustainability, encouraged by a series of climate events—including...