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Gimme an E! Gimme an S! Gimme a G! What Does that Spell? Future Prosperity — and a Healthy Planet
Society has always demanded that companies serve a social purpose — and Hungary’s MBH Bank has consistently stepped up to that mark… Leading Hungarian financial institution MBH Bank has lofty aims — and an ambitious strategy to match. It wants
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When Environmental Considerations Are a Driving Force, Banking Needs a Keen Eye — and Unfailing Dedication
MBH Bank and its risk assessor have taken that message to heart. MBH Bank management firmly believes it has a responsibility towards sustainability — as a financial institution, in lending and investment practices, and in day-to-day operations. It has taken
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When Wheels Fall Off a Gender-Balance Bid by a Wall St Hedge Fund, It Turns to Woman vs Man
Fair Play, screening on streaming service Netflix, shows that entrenched, society-imposed values can be hard for individuals to shake off… Businesses are paying more attention to diversity in their senior teams, and things are gradually moving into positive territory. The
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The View From Belgium: Top Banker Pleads for Caution
Ernest Hemingway’s maxim that bankruptcy arrives gradually “and then suddenly” applies to banks as well: “The proliferation of social media and the ubiquity of online banking imply that when things are perceived to go wrong, bankers may almost instantly lose
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Money, Munitions, Military Outlay, and EU’s Plight in War of ‘Catch-up’
There is no more enduring truth than that expressed by Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero: ‘The sinews of war are infinite money.’ The peace dividend, now exhausted, delivered European countries €4.2tn (£3.6tn) over the past 30 years —
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Binance Teeters as Regulators Close-in on Troubled Exchange
Crypto is having another ‘moment’. Wim Romeijn takes a look for CFI.co… Binance, the largest exchange for trading digital currency and its derivatives, is in distress. A dozen senior executives have left, and the company has fired 1,500 staff as
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Coal, Ja Bitte, Nuke, Nein Danke: Germany’s Other Sort of Nuclear ‘Disaster’ is Unfolding
Coal is a dirty source of fuel, and brown coal is the worst of the lot — yet, as Wim Romeijn reports, that’s what nuclear-shy Germans have opted for… Around the time Germany shuttered its last three nuclear power plants,
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Behind Schedule and Running Out of Ideas: Germany is On-Track for a Homegrown Infrastructure Crisis
A once-immaculate transport system is now underfunded and overstretched, reports Wim Romeijn. The trains in Germany no longer run on time. This is a big issue for a country that derives its national identity from punctuality, order, and Gründlichkeit —
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The Week That Was… 39
Wim Romeijn looks at the financial talking and turning points of the world over the past seven days. Carbon Emission Costs and Damages Pricing carbon emissions is not for the faint of heart, as a working paper released by the
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Accenture on Generative AI: Surfing the Next Wave of Digital Transformation
Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and, with suitable caution that should be a good thing, argues Bashar Kilani. Generative AI will define the next wave of digital transformation. Over recent decades, we have witnessed the “webification” of applications, followed
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