Global coal demand is likely to remain broadly unchanged this year and next, despite short-term fluctuations across several major markets in the first half of 2025, according to the IEA’s latest update on the sector. The Coal Mid-Year Update shows...
European infrastructure may not scream urgency. Yet in Zurich, at the Private Equity Insights Swiss Conference, Harold d’Hauteville made a quiet but pointed case for why it should be at the top of every private equity investor’s agenda. The continent’s...
Global fusion energy investment grew by $2.64 billion in the year since last July, an industry group said in an annual industry survey, but companies said they need much more money to take the industry commercial. The investment rise took...
Global hedge fund assets under management climbed to an all-time high of $4.74tn in Q2 2025, fuelled by the largest quarterly inflows since 2014, as institutional investors poured nearly $25bn into the sector, according to the latest HFR Global...
The private credit market will be stronger in 2025 than it was in the previous year, according to the third annual Barnes & Thornburg 2025 Investment Funds Outlook Report, which identified private credit as one of three key sectors...
JP Morgan says South African telecommunications provider MTN SA has become the first customer to use the bank’s digital bill of exchange product. The product, which uses Swedish digital trade fintech Enigio’s trace: original solution, aims to reduce risk...
Hong Kong’s asset and wealth management industry assets grew 13% year-on-year to HK$35.1 trillion (US$4.53 trillion) last year as net inflows surged 81% to HK$795 billion. According to the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), the findings coincide with the Boston...
Robust trading activity amid high market volatility boosts banks’ earnings. Driven by strong trading revenue that benefited from market volatility, the big Wall Street banks posted strong second quarter results, Moody’s Ratings reports. The large U.S.-based global investment banks — Bank...
Policy and market disruptions hit solar funding hard, yet strategic acquisitions surged in H1 2025. Total corporate funding in the global solar sector fell to $10.8 billion in the first half of 2025, a 39% decline year-over-year (YoY). The drop...
HSBC has launched ‘Receivables Advantage’, an enhanced non-recourse receivables finance solution designed to help large corporates unlock working capital, transfer buyer credit risk, and strengthen balance sheet resilience. The receivables solution enables businesses to unlock cash from their receivables on...
