Investments

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.

Most theories of the case for ESG investing demand that companies act in ways that are counter to the interests of their shareholders.

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.

Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman said regulations on banks have spurred the growth of unsupervised non-bank financial institutions like fintechs and private equity firms.

JPMorgan Chase will store gold held by the world's biggest exchange-traded fund in its vaults, a major coup for the bank's bullion business.

The Inflation Reduction Act is starting to change the way bankers view their climate targets.

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.

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.

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.

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.