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Press Release: Investment and Asset Management Platform Odyssey Acquires Ferntech
Odyssey Energy Solutions has acquired the German remote monitoring and control technology company, Ferntech.
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- Global
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Press Release: 54gene Closes $25 Million Series B to Advance Global Drug Discovery Capabilities
Cathay Africinvest Innovation leads round as company expands precision medicine capabilities across the African continent.
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- Health Care
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- Global
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- scale
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BlackRock Foundation Awards $100 Million to Breakthrough Energy
The BlackRock Foundation has announced a five-year, $100 million commitment to Breakthrough Energy in support of its Catalyst fund to accelerate the development of clean energy technologies.
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- Energy
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- Global
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Mastercard Launches Strive: a Global Small Business Initiative to Accelerate Economic Recovery
This program builds on lessons learned and a body of work developed as part of Mastercard’s long-term focus on financial inclusion”
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Report: Dozens of Nations Might Struggle to Fund Health After COVID-19
Many lower-income and other nations will be unable to maintain pre-pandemic levels of financing for their health systems, as the COVID-19 crisis forces cutbacks on government spending overall, the World Bank warned in a report.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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The Climate Pledge Announces 86 New Signatories, Including Procter & Gamble, HP, and Salesforce, Signaling Their Commitment to Achieving Net-Zero Carbon by 2040 or Sooner
Together, Pledge signatories generate over $1.8 trillion in global annual revenues and are expected to collectively mitigate 1.98 billion metric tons of carbon emissions annually by 2040 from a 2020 baseline
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- Environment
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External Review Finds Deeper Rot in World Bank ‘Doing Business’ Rankings
The World Bank on Thursday said it would cancel the "Doing Business" series by law firm WilmerHale that found senior World Bank leaders, including Kristalina Georgieva, who now heads the International Monetary Fund, pressured staff to alter data to favor China during her time as World Bank CEO.
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- Uncategorized
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Press Release: DFC Approves More Than $1.4 Billion in New Investments for COVID-19 Response, Global Health, Gender Equity, Technology, and Renewable Energy
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Board of Directors has approved nine investments totaling $925 million this quarter.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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- Global
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