Africa Trade Insurer Seeks $500 million to Help With Iran War Cost Increase April 16, 2026 By Simon Jessop Africa’s leading multilateral insurer of trade risk is seeking around $500 million in capital from partners to support countries that...
Investors Press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on Water, Power Use in Data Centers April 8, 2026 By Simon Jessop, Valerie Volcovici and Supantha Mukherjee Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the...
SEC Gave Companies More Power Over Investors but Lawsuits Pushed Them Back March 2, 2026 By Ross Kerber and Simon Jessop A new federal approach giving U.S. companies more say over which proposals shareholders can vote on at their annual meetings...
Investors: Trump’s Rollback on Greenhouse Gases to Cause Confusion, Could Add Costs February 12, 2026 By Simon Jessop The Trump administration’s decision to overturn an Obama-era legal analysis underpinning greenhouse gas rules will sow confusion and add costs...
Rejection of Texas Law Blacklisting ‘Woke’ Firms Could Challenge Other Anti-ESG Laws February 10, 2026 By Simon Jessop and Ross Kerber A Texas judge’s move to strike down a state law blacklisting “woke” financial firms, including BlackRock and HSBC, that used...
Big North European Investors Reassess US Exposure as Geopolitical Risk Mounts January 23, 2026 By Naomi Rovnick, Simon Johnson and Simon Jessop Big Northern European investors are increasingly wary of the risks of holding U.S. assets in the face of geopolitical tensions,...
Net-Zero Banking Alliance Folds After Mass Exodus by Members October 3, 2025 By Simon Jessop and Virginia Furness The Net-Zero Banking Alliance is to cease operations after a vote to wind up the group which had already lost...
New Ratings Firm to Track Climate Hit on Infrastructure Assets June 17, 2025 By Simon Jessop A climate ratings firm created at French business university EDHEC has become the first to estimate projected financial losses for...
Tokio Marine Launches Green Unit, Eyes $1 Billion Revenues by 2030 May 28, 2025 By Simon Jessop Japanese insurer Tokio Marine has set up a unit to insure activities linked to the low-carbon transition such as green...
ING Becomes First Globally Important Bank to Meet Climate Watchdog Standards March 27, 2025 By Virginia Furness and Simon Jessop ING has become the first systemically important global bank to have its climate goals validated as being in line with...