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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 05 September 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-08932-z Assessing financial materiality for environmental issues: impacts on cost of capital in diverse national contexts

Hey 👋 Quick heads-up before anything else: Sessional-2 exams for Sem 7 kick in on my end starting this week, so I won't be able to reply to comments on this post for a bit. Please don't take the silence personally — I'll circle back and reply to everyone once exams wrap up. 🙏 Now, the actual backstory. Issue #1 got a solid response, and I added a Jobs Watch section — hiring drives, layoffs, who's…

Marketech International Corp. (MIC) posted record results in the second quarter of 2026, with consolidated revenue of NT$21.2 billion (approx. US$668.6 million), up 48.2% quarter-over-quarter and 74% year-over-year, and net profit after tax of NT$1.8 billion, up 61.8% quarter-over-quarter and more than 350% year-over-year. Earnings per share were NT$8.17.

Day-ahead joint bidding exposes a hybrid energy storage aggregator (HESA) to uncertainty in the locational marginal price, regulation market clearing capacity price, and regulation market performance clearing price. Conventional seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) modeling calibrates forecast residuals separately for each price and hour, without using their co-movement with…

Refinance a 200,000 mortgage. Current rate 7%, 300 months left. New rate: 7%. New term: 25 years. Closing costs: 4,000. That is not a refinance. It is the loan you already have, plus a bill for four thousand. My calculator, in green: Save $0.00/mo The number is right. The word is not. One ternary, three answers tag : monthlySave >= 0 ? { text : ' Save ' + fmt ( monthlySave , 2 ) + ' /mo ' , level…

A few weeks ago, if you asked what “trustless” means in Bitcoin, the simple answer would have been: no banks, no middlemen, nobody to trust. It is easy to understand why Bitcoin is described this way. It removes the need for a central authority to maintain the ledger and replaces that role with a network of participants following rules that can be independently verified. But the more I studied Bi…

Property renovations are a powerful way to increase a real estate asset’s value and income potential. For smart investors, the benefits go beyond just looks and rental rates, they also include significant tax advantages.  Knowing how to handle the tax side of your renovation projects isn’t just good practice, it’s essential for getting the most […] The post Renovating for Profit: Tax Benefits to …

From impact investing to climate risk consulting, sustainability is now a core component of the finance industry – and the Cambridge MFin has evolved to match the demand. We spoke to 2 Cambridge Judge alumni and Professor Khaled Soufani to find out what’s special about working in sustainable finance, the growing importance of ESG in the wider finance sector and how the MFin can help prepare stude…

As spending on cloud technologies grows, so does waste. The Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud Report found that 27% of organizations expect to spend more on cloud this year, with 17% already exceeding their budgets over the previous 12 months. The estimated share of wasted cloud spend has already crept up to 29%, undoing several years of progress, undoing several years of progress. Companies are ra…

From the Center for Financial Wellness You’ve learned how to earn money—but what do you do with it once you have it? Join financial coach Gabriel Walters, CFP®, for an interactive workshop designed to help you take the next step. You’ll learn how to set meaningful financial goals, make more intentional decisions with your money,…

After two days of heady discussions with academics and policymakers from around the world in high-altitude Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I’m now decompressing back at Street Level . The main theme of this year’s Kansas City Fed symposium was financial innovation in the payments space—a fast-evolving topic with major implications for consumers and central bankers alike. In this post, I’ll share some gene…

Markets move quickly, and technology has changed how investors keep up. Information that once had to be gathered

The prospect of investing in a newly listed company can be exciting, particularly when an offering attracts widespread attention from the market. However, making an informed decision requires more than following headlines or relying on market speculation. Investors need to examine financial information, understand the business model, assess industry conditions, and consider potential risks before…

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) has proposed that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix prepay as much as KRW25 trillion (approx. US$18 billion) in electricity bills as South Korea looks for new ways to finance the power infrastructure required for its rapidly expanding semiconductor clusters.

Can I Afford This? 1. The Story Behind the Code ​Every developer knows the late nights, the stubborn bugs, and the quiet satisfaction of seeing a project finally come to life. For the past few weeks, my world has revolved around a single mission: building ToolVerse. ​ 2. Like many of you, I looked at the current landscape of financial tools—cluttered with intrusive trackers, forced sign-ups, and …

Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming integral to how retail investors research companies, with nearly half of those surveyed saying they have used it to process financial information or inform investment decisions.

India's fixed wireless access (FWA) market is expanding quickly as 5G rollouts accelerate and policymakers push local manufacturing, but Taiwanese networking suppliers say the opportunity comes with familiar risks. Telecom demand in the country remains strong, yet vendors with experience in India warn that growth does not automatically translate into profit.