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With our Future Leaders in mind, and with only a year to go until the phasing out of LIBOR, this 20-minute Knowledge Hub interview answers your questions on the specific challenges to energy and infrastructure financings presented by the transition to risk-free rates.
Areas under discussion will include why it is taking so long for market participants to make the transition especially in the project finance sphere, what can be done to accelerate the process and the difficulties in transitioning both debt and associated hedging at the same time.
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Lafayette Square Appoints Don Baylor as Managing Director of Services
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NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Lafayette Square, an impact-driven, minority-owned investment platform, announced today that Don Baylor Jr. has been appointed Managing Director of Services. Mr. Baylor joins from The Annie E. Casey Foundation and will lead Lafayette Square s efforts to develop targeted and impactful services that accompany the firm s investments and support economic opportunity in the areas of housing, jobs, and financial inclusion.
Mr. Baylor s role will complement Lafayette Square s unique model that combines capital and services to advance affordable housing residents health and livelihood, support small businesses, and improve employee work conditions.
Canada firm, MP, PR person suspected for farmers protest toolkit tweeted by Greta Thunberg
Delhi Police has filed a case of sedition against unknown persons in connection with toolkit tweeted by Greta Thunberg to mobilise protesters in support of agitating farmers. Text Size:
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New Delhi: The toolkit that was tweeted and then deleted by environmental activist Greta Thunberg, 18, to garner support for the ongoing farmers’ protest was allegedly “fed to her” as part of a “larger conspiracy to create disharmony”, sources in the security establishment told ThePrint.
According to sources, Canada-based organisation Poetic Justice Foundation (PJF) played a “vital role” in “starting a global campaign”, with backing from “political leaders and activists based out of Canada”.
Black History Month on Shelter Island A gravestone with no inscription at the burial ground at Sylvester Manor, where enslaved people were laid to rest. (Credit: Ambrose Clancy)
To kick off Black History Month, NBC-TV New York’s Greg Cergol interviewed Sylvester Manor Curator Donnamarie Barnes, and East Hampton Star Owner/Editor David Rattray of the Plain Sight Project on Monday, Feb. 1.
Later this month, Ms. Barnes will be featured in a story on the channel focused solely on Sylvester Manor and its role in slavery.
Next Monday, Feb. 8 from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Ms. Barnes and Mr. Rattray will be discussing the Plain Sight Project in an online program hosted by Guild Hall, called, “GATHER: Conversations led by Black and Indigenous Change Makers in Suffolk County.”
Abu Dhabi: For decades, cancer has evoked fear. The first mention of the disease can be paralysing for both patients and families, and overcoming the fear of mortality to fight it is often one of the hardest battles.
On the occasion of World Cancer Day, marked internationally on February 4, experts say that advances in the diagnosis and treatment of various cancers should help people take positive action when faced with the disease. This includes being proactive about screening, and seeking treatment even during a global pandemic, they say.
Dr Humaid Al Shamsi
“Even today, many people in the Middle East avoid discussing cancer. But we need to talk much more about it, and make people more familiar with screening requirements.