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1. 23 August 2022 : ESG ratings and the Tesla case

   Tesla, Inc. is a multinational company founded by renowned entrepreneur Elon Musk and specializing in the production of electric vehicles. Its mission is ‘to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy' and, therefore, the reduction of [...]

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2. 16 August 2022 : ESG and sustainable finance. What does this acronym mean?

   ESG. If you search Google for this acronym, you will get a whopping 201 million results (!): everybody talks about it, but maybe not everybody knows what it is really about. Literally, ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. Environmental, [...]

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3. 11 February 2022 : Stock market, stormy weather on the way from overseas? This is a good time to remember a few basic rules for prudent investing

   A big chill hit the American stock markets in January. The S&P 500, the index of the largest American companies, closed out the month down by 5.3 per cent, its worst performance since March 2020. The NASDAQ Composite Index, representative of the tech [...]

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4. 31 December 2021 : Year 2022 is here. Happy birthday, Euro!

   On 1 January 2002 we began to carry in our pockets a brand new currency. Do you remember? We got into the habit of converting the prices newly expressed in euros into their lira equivalents; some of us did it by rounding ('a euro is more or less 2,000 [...]

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5. 18 July 2022 : There's inflation and then there's inflation

   A few weeks ago, the annual US inflation figure for June was released. The 9.1% rate was higher than what economists expected (8.8%). That same month, the inflation estimate for the Eurozone was 8.6%. These numbers don't seem to be all that different [...]

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6. 3 June 2022 : Access to basic bank services for Ukranian refugees in Italy - Ukrainian text

   Information on opening a basic account for Ukrainian refugees in the Italian national territory is available in the Ukrainian language. Access to basic bank services for Ukranian refugees in Italy Доступ до основних банківських послуг для біженців з [...]

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7. 9 May 2022 : A new calculator on our website: the cost of the remittances

   Sending or transferring money abroad without spending a fortune is not easy, especially when small payments are involved. This is the case, for example, of migrants' remittances, that is, the part of a foreign worker's income that is saved and sent to [...]

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