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Relevant information and forward looking trends, always current and to the point. We bring to you the current topics from the Finance World, clearly and concisely presented with commentary from the most important actors from business and politics.

DVFA Monthly Question: Politics sets the wrong course

Financial Centre, Member, TOP-NEWS

In the latest edition of the DVFA Monthly Question, the DVFA Investment Professionals identify bureaucracy reduction and the excessive welfare state as main causes for the current weak economic growth.

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Financial centre Frankfurt overtakes Paris

Financial Centre, International, TOP-NEWS

Frankfurt has overtaken Paris in the global financial center ranking, the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), by the Z/Yen Group. Participants in the survey believe the city will play a more important role in the future.

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Network effect strengthens Frankfurt as a fund location

Financial Centre, TOP-NEWS

German fund management is concentrated in a few locations – primarily in Frankfurt. However, German investors often entrust their assets to foreign addresses as well.

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What the financial industry can do to help combat climate change

Financial Centre, TOP-NEWS

A simplified division into green and brown securities is insufficient. The financial market can and must play a broader role in the transformation

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“Frankfurt is the centre of global sustainability standards.”

Financial Centre, Sustainable Finance, TOP-NEWS

Hesse’s Minister of Finance Michael Boddenberg visits the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) in its Frankfurt Office in order to exchange ideas on current developments in corporate sustainability reporting.

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World Design Capital 2026: Frankfurt RheinMain is in the final

Frankfurt Life, TOP-NEWS

Frankfurt RhineMain is one of the two finalists for the title “World
Design Capital 2026.”

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DVFA Monthly Question: DVFA Investment Professionals see political analysis as more important in research

Financial Centre, Member, TOP-NEWS

The latest DVFA monthly question is once again addressed to the more than 1,400 members of the association and is dedicated this month to the topics of political research, ESG analyses and geoeconomics.

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ISSB issues inaugural global sustainability disclosure standards

Financial Centre, Sustainable Finance, TOP-NEWS

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has today issued its inaugural standards—IFRS S1 and IFRS S2—ushering in a new era of sustainability-related disclosures in capital markets worldwide.

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Finance Montréal and Frankfurt Main Finance jointly sign statement of intent to support ISSB

International, Press Releases, Sustainable Finance, TOP-NEWS

Today, the two financial centre initiatives signed a joint statement of intent to support the Global Baseline in Sustainability Reporting by the ISSB. Montréal and Frankfurt are both home to the ISSB’s offices.

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Casablanca Finance City and FMF joint event in Casablanca

Financial Centre, International, Press Releases, TOP-NEWS

Casablanca Finance City (CFC) and Frankfurt Main Finance (FMF) collaborated, alongside the German-African Business Association, to strengthen business cooperation between the Eurozone and Africa in green and sustainable finance as well as FinTech.

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