ESG
ESG
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The Texas Attorney General's office will decide by Jan. 13 whether Citigroup "discriminates" against the firearms industry, a ruling that will determine the bank's ability to underwrite most municipal bond offerings in the state.
December 14 -
JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon praised the results of last month's U.S. midterm elections, saying cooperation in Congress may be more likely since both parties' "wing nuts didn't get elected."
December 12 -
Investment bankers working on mergers and acquisitions need to review their due diligence processes to ensure deals aren't upended by an evolving set of ESG risks, according to Berkeley Research Group.
December 7 -
Most theories of the case for ESG investing demand that companies act in ways that are counter to the interests of their shareholders.
December 5 -
As climate transition evolves in the coming years, banks will be in position to finance a wider range of decarbonization efforts than they have in the recent past, according to a new report from McKinsey.
December 1 -
The Inflation Reduction Act is starting to change the way bankers view their climate targets.
November 30 -
Thomas Montag, once the second-most powerful executive at Bank of America, is returning to Wall Street with the launch of a carbon-credit venture backed by TPG Inc.
November 29 -
BlackRock and UBS Group are among major financial firms taking steps to be removed from a list of companies that Texas has classified as "boycotting" the fossil fuel industry.
November 28 -
The Boston bank is engaged in a three-year endeavor to finance $5 billion to meet the credit needs of underserved communities. "This has to be in your DNA because you cannot fake it," CEO Nitin Mhatre said.
November 23 -
Goldman Sachs Group will pay $4 million to settle U.S. regulators' claims that its asset management unit didn't properly weigh environmental, social and governance factors in some of its investment products.
November 23