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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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16 August 2022 : ESG and sustainable finance. What do these initials 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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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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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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16 January 2025 : New rules for crypto-assets
The Italian government's provisions for a safer and more protected system The new year has begun with the full application of the European Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). Legislative Decree 129/2024, approved last September, contains [...]
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9 January 2025 : New rules for instant credit transfers
They won't cost more than ordinary credit transfers There has been a new rule since 9 January 2025: Poste italiane and banks that already provide their customers with instant credit transfer services are required to apply fees to instant credit transfers [...]
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27 December 2024 : Shipping containers and financial instruments
What do they have in common? Shipping containers are among the most significant//important inventions in maritime shipping. They are large steel containers, ranging in length from 20 to 40 feet (about 6 to 12 metres), designed to optimize space. Their [...]