UNCTAD says global FDI rose to $1.6 trillion in 2025, but the recovery is increasingly concentrated in advanced economies and strategic sectors such as AI, semiconductors, clean energy and critical minerals. Global foreign direct investment returned to growth in 2025, offering a tentative sign of resilience in an economy still
European Investment Bank reaffirms climate leadership after World Bank abandons financing target, exposing widening divisions across the multilateral system The world’s largest multilateral development banks are entering a defining moment over climate finance. Just days after the World Bank announced it was abandoning its long-standing target that 45 percent of
New assessment signals that climate risk has shifted from a long-term environmental concern to an immediate financial and economic challenge The Bank of England has issued one of its clearest warnings yet that climate change now poses an increasingly immediate threat to financial stability, cautioning that banks, insurers and investors
Developers race to lock in federal incentives as renewable energy enters a more expensive era driven by AI-powered electricity demand The scramble is on. Across the United States, renewable energy developers have spent recent weeks rushing to qualify projects before the expiration of federal clean energy tax credits, setting off
Days after the World Bank dropped its 45% climate finance target under U.S. pressure, the immediate fight over the benchmark is over. The bigger question now is whether climate resilience remains central to development finance, or becomes politically negotiable. The World Bank’s decision this week to scrap its 45% climate
OpenAI has discussed granting the U.S. government a 5 percent ownership stake in the company, according to a breaking report from the Financial Times, in a proposal that would mark one of the most significant alignments yet between a frontier artificial intelligence company and the federal government. OpenAI CEO Sam
Gulf state investors committed nearly $54 billion in the first half of 2026, underscoring how sovereign capital is reshaping global markets, technology, and development priorities. Gulf sovereign wealth funds are on pace for a record year, deploying historic levels of capital even as war-driven volatility, oil market shocks, and geopolitical
Finland’s IQM becomes the first European quantum computing firm to list on a major U.S. exchange, signaling a new phase in the race to build quantum infrastructure Europe’s quantum ambitions have reached Wall Street. IQM Quantum Computers, the Finland-based superconducting quantum computing company, has completed its business combination with Real
The expanded partnership signals a new phase for quantum computing—one focused less on theoretical breakthroughs and more on practical tools for risk, capital efficiency, and financial resilience. A New Phase for Quantum in Finance Crédit Agricole CIB and French quantum computing company Pasqal are deepening a strategic partnership aimed at
As public equity markets become increasingly concentrated around a handful of technology giants, the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds are redirecting billions toward private infrastructure, private credit and private equity—signaling a profound shift in how governments are positioning capital for the AI era. The artificial intelligence revolution is reshaping not
