EIB lends EUR 100 million for Georgia’s Water Sector Rehabilitation Programme The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 100 million to finance wastewater collection and treatment infrastructure in Kutaisi. In Kutaisi, Georgia’s second largest city with approximately 200 000 inhabitants, the EIB will finance the rehabilitation and extension of… Read More »
Syngenta announces corn traits licensing agreement Syngenta announced today an expansion of its licensing collaboration with KWS and Limagrain and their joint ventures AgReliant and Genective. The new agreement is for 20 years and covers the AgReliant business in North America and the individual operations of the two companies outside… Read More »
Third quarter 2015: sales $2.6 billion Third quarter group sales, including Lawn and Garden, were unchanged at constant exchange rates. Reported sales were affected by the depreciation of most currencies against the dollar and were 12 percent lower. Excluding glyphosate and the change in sales terms in Brazil already announced,… Read More »
IRP Report Finds Trade Shifting Burden of Environmental Impacts to Developing Economies As countries become increasingly dependent on world trade, with 40 per cent of resources extracted and used worldwide linked directly or indirectly to trade, new policies are needed to address adverse environmental impacts, according to a new report.… Read More »
August Volatility Drives Global AUM in Short & Leveraged ETPs to Record High $70bn WisdomTree, an Exchange Traded Fund (“ETF”) and exchange traded product (“ETP”) sponsor, and specialist in short & leverage (“S&L”) ETPs through the Boost ETP product range, is proud to announce the release of the Boost Short… Read More »
EIB sets new 35% target for climate lending in developing countries The European Investment Bank (EIB), the world’s largest lender for climate related projects, will increase the proportion of its lending in support of climate related investment in developing countries from 25% to 35%. Speaking at a meeting of finance… Read More »
Michael O’Higgins appointed as LLPP Chairman The Lancashire County Pension Fund (LCPF) and London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) today announced that the former Chairman of the Pensions Regulator, Michael O’Higgins, will chair their £10bn partnership. The London and Lancashire Pensions Partnership (LLPP) will pool LCPF and LPFA assets, jointly manage… Read More »
EIB and World Bank join forces with new agreement to support Ukraine The European Investment Bank (EIB) and World Bank (WB) signed an agreement under EU guarantee that aims to facilitate the purchase of gas by Ukraine’s national gas company, NJSC Naftogaz. The agreement was signed today by EIB President… Read More »
Winner of “Payments and Fraud Company” category SafeCharge (AIM: SCH), a leader in advanced payment technologies, has been named the Payments and Fraud Company of the Year at the prestigious EGR Italy Awards held last night at the Rome Cavalieri hotel. The EGR B2B Awards are organised by eGaming Review… Read More »
Launches new funds in the Italian market HSBC Global Asset Management has enhanced its range of multi-asset productswith the introduction of its new HSBC GIF Global Multi-Asset Income Fund. This launch is a response to continuing strong client demand for multi-asset products. The Fund’s well diversified multi-asset investment approach is… Read More »
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