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Governance and Climate Change
13 March 2023
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Governance and Climate Change
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Responsible Capitalism
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15 December 2022
By Daniel Ferreira. Crypto has a governance problem. This problem is in crypto's DNA and poses an existential threat to the whole project. Unfortunately, blockchain developers and other stakeholders have...
15 December 2022
By Miriam Schwartz-Ziv. Results show that firms that receive relatively low support rates from shareholders, are the firms that tend to use methods that make it more challenging for shareholders to make their...
6 December 2022
By Nikita Aggarwal. By reducing upfront frictions and shifting and shrouding costs, smooth finance both increases risk in the system and concentrates risk in younger, less financially sophisticated, lower-...
20 November 2022
By Marco Becht. Will the principle of “do no harm to people and planet in the pursuit of power or profit” become a basic rule of society in the 21st century embodied in ethical custom and law? 
17 November 2022
Dr Rupini Deepa Rajagopalan. Despite the difficulties, it is not all grey in the world of engagement. We have found that engagement can be a highly effective tool for positive change and the more we engage and...
17 November 2022
By Hans De Cuyper. In responsible finance, climate change and sustainability more broadly are viewed from the perspective of a risk turned into an opportunity. Sustainability and profitability are not mutually...
17 November 2022
By Lieve Mostrey. To a large degree, all aspects of ESG are investor led – if investors avoid funds, projects and/or companies because of ESG concerns, then consequently capital will be re-allocated to those...
8 November 2022
By Marco Pagano and Josef Zechner. Part two of three. Firms’ first line of defence against the initial dry-up in cash flow was to draw down their credit lines from banks and to take loans from them to increase...