Category: Finance

Warsaw, Poland – June 27, 2025 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has extended a PLN 300 million (€70 million) Sustainability-Linked Loan to Światłowód Inwestycje (S-I), Poland’s largest wholesale-only fibre infrastructure operator, to support its network expansion in semi-urban areas and to refinance existing debt. The financing is part of a broader […]

What does it take to lead through complexity, make tough decisions and still put people first? For me, the answer became clear during a defining moment early in my career – one that changed my path entirely. Today I am a business-school educator, but I began my career in the corporate world. I faced a […]

When the online review platform Yelp added a “Black-owned” tag in 2020, it boosted the visibility of Black-owned restaurants in Detroit. It also caused their ratings to drop, according to our recent study. Both local and nonlocal reviewers who showed awareness of a restaurant’s Black ownership rated restaurants 3.03 stars on average. Those who did […]

Twenty-five years ago, “The Perfect Storm” roared into movie theaters. The disaster flick, starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, was a riveting, fictionalized account of commercial swordfishing in New England and a crew who went down in a violent storm. The anniversary of the film’s release, on June 30, 2000, provides an opportunity to reflect […]

The word “reconciliation” sounds benign, even harmonious. But in Washington, D.C., reconciliation refers to a potent legislative shortcut that allows the party in power to avoid opposition and enact sweeping changes to taxes and spending with a simple majority vote. Democrats used the process to pass the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. Reconciliation helped Republicans […]

The United States is trying to decouple its economy from rivals like China. Efforts toward this include policymakers raising tariffs on Chinese goods, blocking exports of advanced technology and offering subsidies to boost American manufacturing. The goal is to reduce reliance on China for critical products in hopes that this will also protect U.S. intellectual […]

U.S. charitable giving increased 3.3% to US$593 billion in 2024, lifted by the strength of the economy. The annual report from the Giving USA Foundation, produced in partnership with the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, found that this was the second-highest level on record after adjusting for inflation. Giving grew at the fastest […]

The U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to claw back US$3.7 billion in grants from industrial demonstration projects may create an unexpected opening for American manufacturing. Many of the grant recipients were deploying carbon capture and storage – technologies that are designed to prevent industrial carbon pollution from entering the atmosphere by capturing it and injecting […]

WELLINGTON, June 2025 — New Zealand agtech startup Halter has become one of the country’s rare unicorns, reaching a valuation of $1 billion following a successful $100 million Series D funding round. The company, which develops smart cattle management technology for dairy farmers, announced the raise on Monday as it accelerates its expansion into the […]

Largest-Ever Crypto Confidence Scam Forfeiture Targets Global Criminal Network Washington, D.C. – June 19, 2025The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize over $225.3 million in cryptocurrency linked to an extensive global investment fraud and money laundering network—marking the largest crypto-related seizure in the history of […]