Sentences with phrase «multinational banks funded»

The report revealed that 37 multinational banks funded $ 87 billion worth of carbon - intensive fossil fuels projects in 2016.

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While universal banks can count on recurring revenue from multinational corporate accounts, Goldman Sachs has been more heavily exposed to the fortunes of hedge funds.

While the funding round was led by DFJ ventures (Draper Fisher Jurveston) it also included the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), USAA (United Services Automobile Association) a US bank available only to current and former service members and their families, BBVA a large multinational bank, and former Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit.

Multinational corporations have dealt with this by rapidly expanding the size and responsibilities of their corporate treasury departments, which often fund dozens or even hundreds of bank accounts around the world to facilitate efficient payments.

Prior to joining Sovereign, Joseph was a Fund Administrator at the State Street Bank in Luxembourg, and was once based in Paris while employed at Société Générale, a French multinational banking and financial services company hailed as one of the top three French banks.

Depending on whom you ask, the agents of globalization vary widely: multinational corporations like General Motors, Nike and Coca - Cola (the largest employer in sub-Saharan Africa); the United Nations and the thousands of nongovernmental organizations; the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization; or CNN and Disney.

CIF was established in 2008, as one of the largest fast - tracked climate financing instruments in the world, with $ 8.3 - billion funding to provide developing countries with grants, concessional loans, risk mitigation instruments, and equity that leverage significant financing from the private sector, Multinational Development Bank's (MDBs) and other sources.

In recent weeks, the large multinational Dutch bank ING and Norwegian bank DNB announced plans to sell off their stakes in loans funding the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.

China has been «greening» for years, developing renewables and carbon capture technologies at breakneck speed, while also investing more aggressively in the region than Japan at a time when most multinational banks have restricted coal funding.

Norway's central bank is divesting the country's $ 870 billion pension fund of its holdings in four Asian multinationals over rainforest destruction for palm oil in Southeast Asia, the bank announced...

If the Supreme Court eventually rules that litigation funding is permitted in Ireland, it will mean that Irish parties who are lawfully entitled to compensation, for example due to a breach of contract by a large multinational corporation, or mis - selling of financial products by an international bank, can make use of the financial resources and the strategic experience of professional funders like Woodsford to get justice from the Courts».

Its domestic and international clients include Nortel UK Pension Trustee and UK Pension Protection Fund, Hollinger Inc., U.S. Steel Inc. and U.S. Steel Canada, TransCanada Energy, Ontario Securities Commission, TSX, TD Bank, Canadian Pacific Railway, and several multinational law firms.

Sven's industry experience includes helping US and international banks, broker / dealers, insurance companies, gaming companies, trust companies, hedge funds, and multinational corporations.

The strategic establishment of our offices in the key corporate and financial centers of the world has enabled us to represent a broad range of clients that includes multinational and domestic corporations, banks, funds and financial institutions.

Mr. Smallhoover practices in the areas of regulatory compliance affecting multinational businesses and financial institutions; anti-corruption; data protection and privacy law; banking and financial law (including issues touching public and private funds ranging from hedge, mutual and offshore funds to non-U.S. investment vehicles); corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions (for both financial and strategic buyers and sellers); custom and trade law; corporate restructurings and insolvency matters; and general commercial law.

He acts for a wide range of clients, from multinational corporations, investment funds, banks, insurers, and high net worth individuals, to all sizes of businesses, trusts and family companies, public authorities, and private clients at all levels.

Clients include major multinational investment banks such as JP Morgan and HSBC, as well as leading pension funds such as Sura and Banco Hipotecario.

Through its integrated transactional, regulatory, policy and dispute resolution practices, the firm is able to provide top legal counsel globally to lenders; investment banks; private equity funds; underwriters; issuers; independent producers; major multinational and state - owned oil companies; national governments; energy service companies; processing, operations, transportation and pipeline companies; and refining and petrochemical companies.

The group includes the usual suspects: counsel to Wall Street banks, private equity firms, hedge funds and multinational corporations.

Zhou Jie has advised domestic and foreign investment banks, commercial banks, leasing companies, asset managers, fund managers and multinational corporations providing legal services for the foreign clients» investment transactions and operations in China, as well as the domestic clients» investment and financing activities overseas.

Our dispute resolution team is counsel to multinational corporations, financial institutions, banks, funds, insurers, trust companies and governments as well as private individuals, directors and officers.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.