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Institutional Investor: Private capital is flooding into defense technology companies at unprecedented levels. Venture funds are "pouring money into defense startups," Bloomberg reports, with defense-related U.S. startups raising more funding since early 2023 than in the previous nine years combined.
CFO Dive: Work-related accidents and diseases annually take the lives of 3 million people worldwide, a 5% increase compared with 2015, the International Labor Organization said in a 2023 report.
ESG Dive: Deutsche Bank reaffirmed its commitment to reaching net-zero and decarbonizing the economy in its latest transition plan, as global banking peers have sought to recalibrate their public messaging around sustainability in the wake of increased political scrutiny.
ESG News: KPMG International’s 2025 ESG Assurance Maturity Index suggests a shift in how companies view sustainability reporting. Once considered a compliance exercise, ESG assurance is increasingly seen as a tool for competitive advantage, trust-building and long-term resilience.
Green Central Banking: A big Dutch pension fund has withdrawn mandates from BlackRock, Legal & General and AQR Capital Management due to a shift in investment strategy that puts a bigger emphasis on sustainability.
Investing.com: Invesco Markets II Plc announced that its Invesco EUR AAA CLO UCITS ETF will incorporate environmental and social characteristics into its investment policy, effective September 30, 2025.
ESG Dive: The SBTi, which validates that organizational sustainability targets align with climate science, collected data from the end of 2023 until Q2 of 2025. The data included corporations, small and medium enterprises, and financial institutions.
ESG News: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Roche vice chairman André Hoffmann have been appointed interim co-chairs of the World Economic Forum (WEF) as the institution enters a critical period of transition.
ESG News: A new Forest 500 report by nonprofit Global Canopy reveals that in 2024, the 150 financial institutions with the greatest exposure to deforestation risk collectively financed US$8.9 trillion to companies in the so-called “deforestation economy.”
ShareAction: New research by ShareAction, the organisation campaigning for responsible investment, shows several of the world’s largest real estate investment managers are failing to take even basic steps to tackle climate change, leaving investors exposed to financial risks and critical emissions unchecked in a key sector for the transition to net zero.
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