Finance

KeyBank announced an investment of $450,000 in the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh (TIP) to bolster its Advanced Masonry Pre-Apprenticeship Program (AMP). The program is designed to empower individuals facing barriers to employment and other marginalized populations.

Addressing the climate crisis both domestically and internationally is key to ensuring long-term global economic stability.

On the topic of finance increasingly in step with the ecological transition, Soft&Green wanted to listen to the voice of Francesco Bicciato, Director of the Forum for Sustainable Finance.

Webster Bank, together with the Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury, celebrated the opening of the Webster Bank/Hispanic Coalition Finance Lab, a program created to provide students the skills needed for financial empowerment and future financial well-being.

Public resources are not enough in the path toward the green transition and, therefore, private business investment becomes crucial to achieve some important goals such as countering the climate crisis and reducing inequality.

We have incorporated sustainability factors into our investment process without a selection or rejection bias stemming purely from sustainability factors. Considerations of sustainability factors also feed into the analytical frameworks used by our investment teams.

Investors and regulators need to understand how climate-related risks and opportunities have affected and will affect a company’s financial position and performance.

For more than 150 years, MetLife has been committed to serving our stakeholders as set forth in our Code of Business Ethics. As a responsible investor, MetLife maintains a long-term, value-driven portfolio.

Lubika and his brothers’ business was good enough to win among 10 small business finalists from North and South Carolina in the first-ever “Shark Tank”-style event held by SCORE Charlotte.

We are seeing institutional investors around the world become more interested in sustainable investment products —and we’re responding. As a global asset manager, we have focused on converting and launching new funds that comply with greater expectations of sustainability.