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...“Nobody’s ever going to be comfortable saying: ‘Oh, we’re willing to risk that for five days, we don’t have wind or solar and we’re not going to have a back-up’,” he told the Financial Times....
...Citigroup has agreed to disclose its relative levels of financial support for low-carbon energy versus fossil fuels — what’s known as a green financing ratio....
...“The automation of policing has only just begun,” said Misbah Khan, who is the German Green party‘s rapporteur on data protection and privacy rights....
...China’s biggest AI systems company SenseTime has unveiled the latest version of its generative AI model....
...Citing his trips to 17 countries last year, Fink wrote global politicians and businesspeople increasingly planned to invest in both oil and gas for energy security and green power for the energy transition...
...Job moves Centerview has hired former Credit Suisse co-head of Emea financial institutions group Israel Fernández as a partner, Financial News reports....
...“Financial discipline will run through the document. We will fight on the economy and that’s one reason why Rav has this role.”...
...Chairwoman Le Thi Thu Thuy shared her reasons for optimism at the Nikkei and Financial Times’ Asia Green Tech Summit....
...In particular, he says, dealmaking and financing of innovation centred on the transformation of agricultural systems will require deep expertise....
...“Because financial actors are the ones behind it, they have managed to translate the environmental crisis into one metric, which is carbon.”...
...A repair centre in Stockholm visited by the Financial Times this week seemed to be operating largely as normal....
...But he said that low-carbon alternatives such as green methanol or ammonia currently cost up to four times as much as fossil fuels, meaning wind power could be used alongside green fuels to save money if...
...“ETFs are generally excluded from the approximately $6.6tn 401(k) marketplace primarily due to technology limitations of 401(k) record-keeping systems,” it said in the filing....
...Financial markets may have hit the buffers last year, but this did make one type of investment a lot more popular: buffered exchange traded funds....
...You know, I use it to try and fix the system. If this system wasn’t collapsing, I’ll be on the beach somewhere in the Philippines drinking pina coladas....
...Some asylum seekers are staying in a squat on Brussels’ Rue de la Loi, just next to the headquarters of De Moor’s party, CD&V....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 28. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Rathbones holds two US companies that should benefit from the rising demand for more sustainable buildings: Owens Corning, which provides building insulation; and Advanced Drainage Systems which is focused...
...Cut the green stuff | Keir Starmer is facing calls from some senior allies to rebrand the Labour party’s proposed flagship “green prosperity plan” to put more focus on its impact on the UK economy in terms...
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...Hughes’s letter warned the committee “will continue to evaluate your ESG practices and your relationship to Texas pension systems”....
...Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping anti-ESG bill that bans the state from issuing green or ESG bonds....
...Its $440bn credit arm makes more business loans than some midsize banks, making it not so much an investment outfit as an alternative financial system....
...Most importantly, Finance Watch secretary-general Benoît Lallemand told me, it would ensure that the financial system is protected against losses as fossil fuel producers contend with an accelerating energy...
...While repo markets are a major part of the financial system in developed economies, helping to drive liquidity and reduce credit costs, they’ve been very limited in Africa....
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