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Green Investment Bank sell-off plans alarm MPs and peers
2015-12-13 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Controversial plans to privatise the governments Green Investment Bank (GIB) have run into serious trouble in parliament amid fears among MPs and peers that the sale will strip it of any legal requirement to back exclusively green projects and promote a low-carbon economy. Key figures in government have admitted that the sell-off has become hugely problematic, because ministers have been told the switch to the private sector has to include rule changes that will release the privatised bank from...
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World Bank approves $700m investment in Ghanas offshore gas project
2015-08-03 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
The World Bank has approved a $700m investment in guarantees for offshore Sankofa gas project in Ghana.
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Arlington investment bank buying New York firm
2015-07-28 22:02:58| Footwear - Topix.net
Arlington-based investment bank FBR & Co. will buy New York investment banking firm MLV & Co., a move FBR says will give it the top market share in placing equity in private companies and in at-the-market equity offerings.
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How a green investment bank really works
2015-07-13 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Business secretary Vince Cable, responsible for the UK's Green investment bank (GIB), visits the German development bank KfW today, a day after the law establishing the GIB was published. It will be an interesting visit. When I met Leon Macioszek, director of KfW in Berlin on Tuesday, I pointed out that the GIB can't actually borrow. This rendered him speechless as his mind wrestled hopelessly with the contradiction. But I am sure he will recover in time to tell Cable about the bank's work. There...
World Bank: 2014 Public-Private Infrastructure Investment Hit $107.5B
2015-06-10 22:13:59| ENR.com: Headline News
Brazil accounted for largest share among 139 low- and middle-income countries, with $44.2 billion.
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