Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

By 2050, up to 86 million Africans could become internal climate migrants due to deteriorating living conditions, according to the World Bank. And Africa’s youth – 60% of the continent’s population is below the age of 25 – say they want business to respond.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

December 13, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Oportun (Nasdaq:OPRT), a mission-driven fintech and digital banking platform, today announced that it has been named the winner of the 2022 Tearsheet Challenger Award in the category of Serving the Underserved. powered digital banking platform that seeks to make financial health effortless for anyone.

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3BL Media

APRIL 20, 2022

At Oportun we are committed to providing our members with affordable and inclusive financial services that aim to help our hardworking members achieve financial health and meet their daily borrowing, savings, banking, and investing needs. . powered digital banking platform that seeks to make financial health effortless for anyone.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bank company blog A new mixed-use, affordable housing development is underway in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo neighborhood. A longtime partner of Little Tokyo Service Center since 2009, U.S. Bank has provided $466,000 through charitable giving programs over the years to support the important work they do.  “It

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 15, 2023

Food Banks Canada’s 2022 Hunger Count reports a 35% increase in visits since 2019. Sadly, 33% of food bank users are children, while 18% are single parents. The French Federation of Food Banks found that every morning, 2,700 supermarkets send food that would otherwise be wasted to 80 warehouses, rescuing 46,000 tons a year.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2024

McDermott will advise EIP and its portfolio of companies on financial strategy and operations, leveraging his extensive experience in investment banking to drive financial growth and capital efficiency. ” Prior to EIP, McDermott was Global Co-Head of Investment Banking at Nomura Securities International, Inc.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 11, 2024

When the University of Virginia issued the first Build America Bond ($250 million) in April of 2009, it was just about three months. The post To scale the IRA’s “green bank,” community lenders should engage muni finance markets appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Since 2009, our support of VITA sites has helped return $298 million to more than 164,000 residents throughout our service area. . Entergy's VITA Plus program also provides customers with the opportunity to receive other services aimed at economic self-sufficiency, such as savings, credit repair, free bank accounts and financial coaching. .

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

While crypto can offer some societal benefits—such as financial inclusion and the ability to “be your own bank”—there are also potential downsides, including its carbon footprint, prevalence of theft through hacks and lack of centralized governance. and EU illegal drug markets.

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3BL Media

APRIL 12, 2024

Learn more about this Regions Bank and Regions Foundation community partner. And, in 2009, Goodwin and his wife faced the crisis of their newborn daughter needing significant medical care, bringing their family to Little Rock, and subsequently bringing him to Our House. Ben Goodwin knows. At age 10, his family home burned down.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

September 27, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT), a mission-driven fintech and digital banking platform, today announced that it has been named the 2022 Finovate Award Winner for Excellence in Sustainability. powered digital banking platform that seeks to make financial health effortless for anyone. SOURCE: Oportun.

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Cisco CSR

APRIL 12, 2022

I fondly recall in the not-too-distant past, Bank of America radio commercials boasting about its branch network. In the lighthearted radio commercial, the person was giving directions and using the location of Bank of America branches as where to turn. In 2009 when the closing of branches trend began the U.S.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Founded in 2009, San Francisco-based Pattern Energy develops and operates wind, solar, transmission, and energy storage projects, with an operational portfolio of 35 facilities across the U.S., The tax equity term loan facility was provided by Banco Santander and Santander Bank N.A. billion in green loans and a $2.25

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ESG Today

JULY 18, 2023

Global bank ING and the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced today the launch of a new sustainable finance program aimed at providing €600 million in new loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs ) in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg to enable investments with a positive climate and environmental impact. ”

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Learn how the bank and a nonprofit leader are empowering youth with blindness or vision impairment to camp outside their comfort zones. SOURCE: Regions Bank. Learn how Regions Bank team members are providing their support. I loved the Regions Bank presentation and their work being so inclusive,” said Puranik.

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ESG Today

JULY 31, 2024

Concurrently, Avantus announced it has closed on a $522 million development facility arranged by KKR Capital Markets and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC). Founded in 2009, California-based Avantus develops and sells or operates large utility-scale solar and solar-plus-storage projects, with a focus on the southwestern U.S.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Between 2009 and 2020, for example, average mentions of transition risks in 10-K filings grew from four to 10, while average mentions of physical risks rose from two to just four, based on a Brookings Institute analysis. But transition risks continue to command more of companies’ attention than physical risks.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The funding to developing countries will largely come in the form of a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) – a successor climate finance target that will raise the US$100 billion floor set in 2009, and finally reached in 2022. Next up on the agenda could be governance reform, Scull ventured.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Important Background for Understanding the 80 Year History of the TCFD The Financial Stability Board (FSB) was created in 2009 following the global financial crisis of 2008. Think of the FSB as a public sector “think tank” focused on issues in finance (in banking, finance, securities) and possible steps in regulation to address the issues.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 25, 2024

This lady in a remote rural location not only had a digital bank account that allowed her to receive digital payments, but she had the proof of identity needed for such an account: a unique 12-digit number linked to her biometrics, her Aadhaar. After producing a hot cup of masala chai, she gave us a QR code to make our payment.

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3BL Media

APRIL 26, 2024

United States 2008-2009: Deputy Speakers Director and Talent Liaison United States Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., United States 2008-2009: Deputy Speakers Director and Talent Liaison United States Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., The discounts were amazing!

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ESG Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

Northern Europe-based financial services company Nordea announced the launch of a new Climate and Environment team, aimed at ensuring progress and group-wide alignment across its financing and investment activities towards its net zero goals. Sandahl has been appointed as Head of Climate and Environment and Deputy Head of Group Sustainability.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Together, we navigated through a multitude of logistical challenges, from setting up a bank account and acquiring a car to securing a place to call home. This journey required changing brands, starting a new job and moving to a different country. I wouldn’t have been able to do this without Sean’s support and partnership.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 27, 2023

When she walked out that day in 2009, she wasn’t sure she still wanted to be an accountant. Likewise, the European Central Bank recently reported that “banks do not yet sufficiently incorporate climate risk into their stress-testing frameworks and internal models.”

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ESG Today

MARCH 26, 2024

Founded in 2009, London-based Given works with C-suite decision makers to define, embed and activate purpose in their organizations to achieve sustainable, long-term growth, with a team consisting of more than 50 experts, and clients including IKEA, Lloyds Banking Group, Kimberly-Clark, L’Oreal, PVH, Aviva, Ocado, and PVH Group.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 13, 2024

Take it Step by Step Looking 10 steps — or 10 marathons — ahead can make it easy to get nervous about the challenges that you’ve yet to encounter, said Featherstun who ran her first marathon in 2009. But taking these small steps adds up. Featherstun, who turned 40 years old this year, now runs marathons in under 2 hours and 50 minutes.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

For example, Citibank started as the City Bank of New York in 1812, making them over 200 years old! For Citibank, a technological disruption came in 1975 when ATM machines exploded onto the banking scene, allowing individuals to withdraw their own money without the face-to-face contact with a teller needed prior. The Test of Time.

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3BL Media

JUNE 2, 2022

This free program supported by Regions Bank helps business owners succeed. SOURCE: Regions Bank. The one-day workshops (often called a “mini MBA on steroids”) are conducted by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City with support from Regions Bank. Erik Miner, market executive for Regions Bank. Spread the news!

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” “The simple reality is that it’s no longer free to pollute in Canada,” Guilbeault told media Monday morning. “We

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Just Capital

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This is despite empirical research from the International Monetary Fund showing that nominal wages can continue to increase while inflation declines, allowing real wages to eventually grow, and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly saying last month there is no evidence of a wage-price spiral. in July 2009 dollars.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2023

For example, the United States wrote off $30 million of debt for Indonesia in 2009, in exchange for a commitment to conserve the tropical forests of Sumatra, which are home to orangutans, tigers, elephants, and various other endangered species. Each of these challenges must be tackled head-on.

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3BL Media

APRIL 2, 2022

First elected to the City Council in 2009, Comptroller Lander co-founded the Council’s Progressive Caucus and has a strong track record of partnering with community advocates to win transformative change for a more just and equitable city. Mr. Kirkwood has more than 20 years of banking and economic development finance experience.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 20, 2023

The World Bank expects that as their populations and economies grow, low-income countries will assert waste dominance, tripling their current levels of production by 2050. In 2009, it passed a mandatory recycling and composting ordinance for all residences and businesses, the first of its kind in the U.S.

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3BL Media

JULY 8, 2022

She worried that big banks wouldn’t give her loan application serious consideration. Haskell started working with Four Bands in 2009 as part of its Financial Coaching Empowerment Program. And big banks have further tightened lending requirements.

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2022

Before that, Georges was a director for ten years at London investment bank commodity trading desks. His previous positions include Director of Energy Sales at Goldman Sachs, Head of EMEA Energy Marketing at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Head of EMEA Commodity Finance at JP Morgan. He joined GE in 2004.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The GEMs holds the equivalent of three decades of loan performance and default data from multilateral development banks (MDBs). However, that data is only available to a consortium of 24 MDBs, including the World Bank and the European Investment Bank.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 15, 2019

Bitcoins were introduced in 2009 to great fanfare. However, projections show blockchain use will increase significantly in the next decade as banks, insurers and technology firms embrace the technology to boost transaction speed and security, and trim expenses.

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