• SEC moves to curb illicit funds in banking recapitalisation

    The Securities and Exchange Commission has revealed its stance against the admittance of illicit funds into the capital market through the fresh banking recapitalisation exercise. The Executive Director (Operations) of the commission, Dayo Obisan, revealed this on Thursday at a symposium organised by the Association of Capital Market Academics of Nigeria, with the theme ‘Banking Read More

  • UniCredit Bank Introduces onemarkets Fund for Romanian Market

    UniCredit Bank introduces exclusive investment solutions to the Romanian market with the launch of onemarkets Fund. This platform presents a diverse array of investment solutions available to customers of UniCredit Bank Romania, along with the opportunity to leverage the extensive expertise of world leaders in mutual fund management, including BlackRock, Fidelity, Pictet, J.P. Morgan, Pimco, […]

  • China Is Funding America’s Fentanyl Crisis: Congressional Report

    Photo: DEA.gov India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC – The Chinese Communist Party uses tax rebates to subsidize the manufacturing and export of fentanyl materials, a House panel which has Rep.Raja Krishnamoorthi as a ranking members, said in a report released on April 16. The House […]

  • US says China is funding America’s fentanyl crisis

    A congressional report says Chinese firms are subsidized via tax rebates to export fentanyl raw materials

  • Veterans memorial fund gets $5K boost from Liberty Bank

    Liberty Bank of East Longmeadow presented a $5,000 check to help honor local veterans.

  • Rep. Banks proposes bill to ban federal funds from going to NPR

    Republican Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana is pushing a measure that would prohibit federal funds from flowing to NPR."After the date of the enactment of this Act, no Federal funds may, directly or indirectly, be made available to or used to support" National Public Radio, "including through the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from such organization by a public broadcast station using Federal funds received by such station," the proposal, dubbed the "Defund NPR Act," states. The same...

  • Petition: Tell the World Bank to Stop Funding “Hog Hotels” in China

    Please take a moment of your time to sign this petition to demand the World Bank stop funding this animal welfare nightmare!

  • French bank to fund extra 10,000 electric vehicle chargers

    A unit of France's national development bank said on Monday it had teamed up with an operator of electric vehicle rechargers to finance the deployment of nearly 10,000 points at businesses switching their fleets of vehicles.

  • Vista Bank Funds Green Initiatives: €13.9M to Alive Wind Power

    Vista Bank Romania S.A. granted to the company Alive Wind Power One, part of the Premier Energy PLC Group, an investment loan in the amount of 13.9 million euros. The purpose of the facility is to finance the purchase of a wind power park located in Drânceni (Vaslui county) with a total installed power of […]

  • 'That bank has problems': New questions raised about Trump appeals bond insurer

    Questions raised by New York Attorney General Letitia James about the man who stepped in to finance Donald Trump's $175 million appeals bond took center stage on MSNBC's "The Weekend" on Sunday morning with even more questions being raised.Sitting down with co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele and Symone Sanders-Townsend. MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted that Don Hankey, chair of the LA-based Hankey Group and owner of the Knight Specialty Insurance Company, has given conflicting answers...

  • World Bank’s funding of ‘hog hotel’ factory farms under fire over climate effect

    Environmental and animal welfare groups call on lender to phase out support for ‘industrial’ livestock operationsThe private sector arm of the World Bank is facing claims that it contributes to global heating and the undermining of animal welfare by providing financial support for factory farming, including the building of pig farming tower blocks in China.A coalition of environmental and animal welfare groups is calling on the World Bank to phase out financial support for large-scale...

  • World Bank must take ‘quantum leap’ to tackle climate crisis, UN expert says

    Simon Stiell calls for reform at development banks to enable governments to provide more climate finance to developing world The World Bank must take a “quantum leap” to provide new finance to tackle the climate crisis or face “climate-driven economic catastrophe” that would bring all the world’s economies to a halt, the UN climate chief has said.Simon Stiell warned that there were just two years left to draw up an international plan for the climate that would cut greenhouse gas emissions in...