Germany’s KfW issues largest ever USD green bond – $1.5bn! (AAAe, 1.75%, 5yr) and it’s still 1.6x oversubscribed In Frankfurt yesterday I met yesterday with the KFW (Germany’s development bank) Capital Markets team, who ran through their latest latest green bond in USD. A strong result. It’s a follow-up …
GREENER INFORMATION AGE TRANSFORMING ENERGY, FINANCE AND OUR FUTURE
By Hazel Henderson © 2014 Much has been written about the disruptive shifts in many industrial sectors, from retailing, publishing, manufacturing, entertainment, medicine, law, architecture, transport and public services caused by computers, automation and the digital revolution. Since the robotization of automobile production in the 1960s, debates have raged over …
Colonization by Bankruptcy: The High-stakes Chess Match for Argentina
Ethical Markets agrees with Ellen Brown that Argentina is right to resist the US court decision which tried to force an involuntary default , by transferring the trustee for payment from Bank of New York Mellon to Argentina’s own central bank. The idea of an international bankruptcy court , under …
7th Annual Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF) West, September 16-17
THE WESTERN U.S. IS LEADING THE CHARGE ON SCALABLE RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT COME MEET THE PLAYERS! September 16-17, 2014 san francisco REFF-West is the premier west coast renewable energy finance event, uniting senior financiers, investors, and renewable energy executives from across the country since 2008. With a focus on renewable …
You Can’t Taper a Ponzi Scheme: Time to Reboot
One thing to be said for the women now heading the Federal Reserve and the IMF: compared to some of their predecessors, they are refreshingly honest. The Wall Street Journal reported on July 2nd: Two of the world’s most powerful women of finance sat down for a lengthy discussion Wednesday on the …
Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum
CREF 2014 Join us in Miami from October 6th-8th for CREF 2014 and the largest and longest established Caribbean renewables event in the hemisphere. If CREF is the hub for the Caribbean energy markets, so Miami is the nexus for the region as a whole. We are excited to be …
REFF Wall Street, June 25-26
Event Overview REFF-wall street is the premier renewable energy financing event in the U.S. Attendees of this event include CEOs and other senior company officials, lenders, investors, investment bankers, private equity investors, venture capitalists and other top transactional professionals in renewable energy finance. The event draws an especially senior audience, …
Revealed: The Full Membership List of Wall Street’s Secret Society
Revealed: The Full Membership List of Wall Street’s Secret Society Share on email Back in January 2012, I crashed the annual induction ceremony of Kappa Beta Phi, a secret society for elite financiers. You can read the story of what happened here. In addition to writing down details of what I …
Stemming the Transfer of Wealth from Main Street to Wall Street with Publicly-Owned Banks
Stemming the Transfer of Wealth from Main Street to Wall Street with Publicly-Owned Banks PBI Newsletter, November/December 2013 Stemming the Transfer of Wealth from Main Street to Wall Street with Publicly-Owned Banks From the Editor: As 2013 draws to a close, state, local, and federal governments are battling debt and interest …
Envirotech & Clean Energy Investor Summit
Envirotech & Clean Energy Investor Summit, New Energy World Network’s Envirotech & Clean Energy Investor Summit 2013 will take place in London on the 30th and 31st October 2013. The Summit follows on from sold-out events over the past six years and will once again bring together hundreds of the industry’s most active and influential …