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Surveying a clutch of climate fintechs across Europe and North America with scalable business models, the report makes six key findings: At $1.2 billion in 2021, VC funding for climate...

Catalyst, an initiative within the larger Breakthrough Energy network founded by Bill Gates, supports decarbonisation of high-carbon sectors via four climate critical technologies - direct air capture, clean hydrogen, long-duration...

The MUFG Ganesha Fund will invest in middle- to late-stage Indian startups, with the bank saying it plans to provide financial services to the portfolio companies. MUFG has not specified...

The latest capital increase was made by British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank. It follows a £20 million funding round last month and brings...

The Lemonade Crypto Climate Coalition, constituted as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), is aiming to build and distribute at cost instantaneous, parametric weather insurance for the world's most vulnerable farmers....

Visa purchased Verra-certified credits from Sustainable Carbon, a carbon credit project developer in a key step ahead of a planned launch later in the year for what is being dubbed...

The German lender says that customer demand in the B2B and B2C sectors is no longer just growing for digital technology, but above all for sustainable offerings. To reflect this,...

The two firms are co-developing new functionality on Finastra's Payments Hub, giving banks out-of-the-box processing capabilities, available on premises or in the cloud as SaaS. This, says Finastra, will enable...

SVB UK notes that their expansion into Sweden builds on its Nordic presence and will further accelerate plans to deploy capital through debt financing in Sweden’s innovation businesses, as well...

A number of industry associations, such as the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association, and lobby groups have complained that Hong Kong has become uncompetitive as an international financial hub due...