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Companies, Corporate Governance, Financial Institutions / 05.11.2020

Suspension of the world’s largest IPO: what’s at stake with Ant Group’s listing

The world's largest IPO, the listing of Ant Group, has been suspended last-minute. The Shanghai Stock Exchange announced the suspension claiming the Group has failed to meet the issuance and listing conditions or information disclosure requirements. However, is this the full story? [caption id="attachment_3850" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]...

Climate change, Companies, Oil and Gas / 03.11.2020

Climate change action is escalating the risk of stranded assets for oil and gas companies

Coal mines, oilfields and gas reserves are increasingly losing their value as tighter regulations aimed at tackling climate change already are and will continue to be put in place. Due to this, oil and gas companies are expected to write-off at least half of the...

Companies / 27.10.2020

Unilever is top ranking in The Responsibility 100 Index developed by Tortoise Media, setting a best practice in tackling upstream and downstream emissions

Tortoise Media presented its Responsibility 100 Index with Unilever ranking first at the Responsible Business Summit, held online last October 15th, 2020. Unilever’s CEO provided some key insights on innovative and groundbreaking policies for increasing sustainability along the whole supply chain. By focusing on responsible...

Companies, Corporate Governance, Fashion, Tax Avoidance, Tech / 20.10.2020

OECD is guiding the international community in addressing the problem with tech giants and corporate tax

The international community guided by OECD has increasingly committed to finding a solution for the tax challenges connected to the digitalization of the economy. What the OECD proposed would assure that companies, especially big techs such as Google and Amazon, would pay taxes to the...

Big Four, Companies, Corporate Governance, Criminal Transactions, Financial Institutions / 20.10.2020

KPMG’s links to the Wirecard Scandal

The FT has shed a light on #KPMG’s double role in the #Wirecard scandal, outlining the controversial connection existing between the advisory company that last April revealed the Fintech fraud. This points out that #conflictsofinterest coupled with weak #corporategovernance, as well as complacency from the...

Companies, Tech / 19.10.2020

The power of Big Tech must be reined in

As the world of Big Tech is populated by a few colossi holding a disproportionate amount of power, both the EU and the US are taking steps forward. From measures aimed at fostering transparency and accountability, to more radical measures ensuring fair competition, the sector...

Companies, Corporate Governance, Financial Institutions / 15.10.2020

The London Stock Exchange Group has agreed to sell all its stake in Borsa Italiana to Euronext for €4,325 million

On October 9th, 2020, the London Stock Exchange Group has agreed to sell all its stake in Borsa Italiana to Euronext for €4,325 million. The transaction is expected to be completed within the first half of 2021. So far this is the piece of news....

Companies, Corporate Governance, Economics, Financial Institutions / 14.10.2020

China is opening to Wall Street and its European counterparts: which are the major challenges?

As the China-US trade war drags along with increasing Sino-American tensions, China has not ceased opening up various markets. Why is the opening of the financial industry in China important for foreign players? Is the liberalization a concession made by China in the trade war...

Disinvestment, ESG, Food and beverage / 02.10.2020

Meat alternatives market on a rise along with divestments from meat and dairy industries

The plant-based meat alternatives market is on a continuous rise. VC investment in bio-engineered foods has rocketed in the past 10 years and the trend is likely to continue with investors coming after bioengineered food start-ups in droves. Environmentalists are now pointing fingers at the...

Climate change, Companies / 01.10.2020

Accelerating Net Zero Carbon Emissions and the risk of cheap talks

More and more companies, cities, regions, countries are committing to becoming carbon neutral, i.e. to balance out the sum of all greenhouse gases put into and taken out of the atmosphere. More companies than ever committed to ambitious climate action at the Climate Week in...

Companies, Coronavirus, Economics, Financial Institutions, Good practices, Impact investing / 30.09.2020

Impact-weighted accounting, Ronal Cohen’s solution to rewire capitalism

"How do we take into consideration externalities in companies’ reporting?" The debate about reforming capitalism is strong. The Egyptian-born British multimillionaire Sir Ronald (Ronnie) Cohen is a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist who, at the age of 75, aims at transforming the mind-set of today’s capitalism to a more...

Companies, Infrastructure, Mining / 24.09.2020

Rio Tinto blast of ancient aboriginal site in Australia sparks concerns over local communities’ rights

Reputational damage at RioTinto as a result of Juukan Gorge’s blast in breach of the 1972 WA Aboriginal Heritage Act brought responsible investors to ask for CEO resignation. It is clear that the Aboriginal traditional owners were not granted a Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). FPIC is...

ESG, Food and beverage / 18.09.2020

Bottled water in China: Nongfu IPO success, but what about its sustainability from an ESG perspective?

The IPO of Nongfu Spring, a bottled water brand in mainland China, broke the record of the subscription capital of HKEX on September 8, 2020: it was 1,147 times oversubscribed by more than 700 thousand investors. The listing made the owner of the brand, Zhong...

Automobiles and Parts, Climate change, Infrastructure, Mining, Oil and Gas, Positive impact cases / 17.09.2020

Reviving the legacy of UK’s lithium industry

While the benefit of lithium batteries are well-known (batteries are light, charge fast and are able to store a lot of energy) and used in wide-spread technologies (from electric cars to smartphones), the extracting process is far from being environmental friendly as well as it...