Category: Business

Blackstone has successfully raised $8 billion for its latest real estate debt fund, Real Estate Debt Strategies V (BREDS V), mirroring its 2020 fundraising milestone. The new fund will focus on distressed real estate debt, capitalizing on opportunities from the significant $1.5 trillion wave of commercial real estate (CRE) debt maturities set to occur this […]

As Germany grapples with slowing industrial growth, business leaders are urging the government to tackle its bureaucratic burden to revitalize the economy. Executives across key sectors, from automotive to energy, are calling for sweeping reforms to reduce the complexity and cost of red tape that many argue stifles innovation and drains valuable resources. Ulrich Flatken, […]

This post is part three in a series of posts about EFF’s work in Europe. Read about how and why we work in Europe here.  EFF’s mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. While our work has taken us to far corners of the globe, […]

If you are starting your career today, you will hopefully see evidence of how far gender equality has come at work. You may have experienced little gender difference in educational attainment, see plenty of women leading companies, and be aware of legal protections and policies to combat gender discrimination in pay and promotions. Your office […]

We’ve opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don’t like. Last night, President Trump demonstrated he has a similar view on the bill. He wants to sign the bill into law, then use it to remove content about — him. And […]

International Women’s Day, marked each year on March 8, is all about celebrating women and furthering efforts towards gender equality. Companies are keen to join these conversations and shout about their achievements on a day when minds are focused on female empowerment. But this has led to accusations of hypocrisy. In 2021, one user on […]

I’m old enough to remember when age verification bills were pitched as a way to ‘save the kids from porn’ and shield them from other vague dangers lurking in the digital world (like…“the transgender”). We have long cautioned about the dangers of these laws, and pointed out why they are likely to fail. While they […]

The UK could be poised to cut billions of pounds from its welfare spend as the Treasury takes the view that there is less room for manoeuvre in the finances than hoped. Only last October, Chancellor Rachel Reeves believed she had almost £10 billion of so-called “fiscal headroom”, essentially a buffer in her budget if […]

Nigeria’s cocoa industry has seen impressive growth in 2024, with farmers and exporters earning $845 million from cocoa exports in the first half of the year. This marks a staggering 298% increase compared to $212 million during the same period in 2023, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The surge is largely attributed to […]

Vantage Group has launched Vantage Futures, a corporate venture initiative that has already made its first investment in Opfyx, an AI-enabled software suite being piloted at JFK Airport’s Terminal 7. Vantage Group has launched Vantage Futures, a corporate venture initiative, to transform the future of aviation and transportation infrastructure. Vantage Futures seeks to invest in and partner with early-stage, […]