Finance

Shanghai--The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, today signed an agreement to provide a $1 million (RMB 8 million) grant to XinAo Gas' energy efficiency operations. The grant is part of IFC's China Utility-Based En...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2006--State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), the world's leading provider of financial services to institutional investors, today announced the release of its 2005 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. The third annual report pro...

Cleveland, OH - Black Professionals Association Charitable Foundation today named KeyCorp executive Margot J. Copeland its 2006 Black Professional of the Year in recognition of her professional achievements, civic contributions, and personal standards. The foundation ...

ING, a global financial services leader, showed its continued commitment to education today by announcing it is sponsoring the National Teacher of the Year Program, a project by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), for the second year in a row. ING exe...

CLEVELAND - KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) Chairman and CEO Henry L. Meyer III today presented a $1.5 million Key Foundation grant to University Hospitals Health System (UHHS). The largest corporate gift ever to UHHS, the grant underwrites a major new diversity initiative and pr...

Washington, D.C.- The International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, today launched its 2005 Sustainability Report. According to the report, entitled "Choices Matter," IFC invested $705.1 million in 21 projects with a sustainable en...

SAN FRANCISCO- Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) has contributed $75,000 to Earthwatch Institute in celebration of Earth Day and to help foster environmental awareness and science education, consistent with the Company pledge to increase contributions to environme...

SAN FRANCISCO,- Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) invested $5 million in the Carlyle/Riverstone Renewable Energy Infrastructure Fund I, L.P - its first investment in a private equity renewable energy fund. The investment is part of the Company's pledge to provide...

Washington, D.C.,- The International Finance Corporation launched today a competition to provide investors in emerging market equities with better research on companies' social and environmental performance.

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Hong Kong/Washington, D.C.--The Association of Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA) released today a series of reports offering investors guidance on adding critical new areas for value creation and risk into analysis of Asian businesses across eight...