Cat Financial Products & Corporate Services Review

Wed, 11/02/2016 - 10:00

Financial Products provides various forms of insurance to customers and dealers to help support the purchase and lease of our equipment. Corporate Services provides business and human resources, information technology, accounting and finance services to Caterpillar, serving as the enterprise resource for business-related activities.

Wells Fargo NeighborhoodLIFT Program to Boost El Paso Homeownership

Fri, 10/28/2016 - 15:00

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), NeighborWorks® America and its network member Tierra Del Sol Housing Corporation today announced the upcoming El Paso NeighborhoodLIFT® program with a $4.5 million commitment by Wells Fargo to help boost local homeownership.

Catholic Church, International Police Reaffirm Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking

Thu, 10/27/2016 - 16:25

Mike Bloomberg Urges CEOs to Invest In Sustainable Businesses

Thu, 10/27/2016 - 20:30

Many investors and senior business leaders are growing increasingly frustrated by the lack of disclosures associated with “quarterly capitalism.” The truth is, investors are looking at companies to provide disclosures around environmental, governance and social risks that would encourage rational long-term capital allocation

Important News: New GRI Standard for Corporate Reporting Released to Replace GRI G4

Thu, 10/27/2016 - 13:40

The most commonly used sustainability reporting standard for corporate and institutional reporting on an organization’s economic, environmental and social/societal impacts - The Global Reporting Initiative's (“GRI”) framework - has now moved from the fourth generation (G4) to the new modular GRI Standards. The titles of these corporate reports prepared using the GRI approach to disclosure carry varying titles: Corporate Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Citizenship, Environmental Stewardship, and more.

“Message In A Can” Awareness Campaign: Costa Cruises And Cial Consortium Donate Three Benches to Savona

Thu, 10/27/2016 - 11:30

Three benches made of recycled aluminum have been positioned at Darsena, in front of the historic “Torretta” as a gift to the community of Savona.

Women Will Have to Wait Another 170 Years to Close Gender Gap

Fri, 10/28/2016 - 17:10

Women are going to get pay equality – they’ll just have to wait for another 170 years.

That’s according to an estimate by the World Economic Forum assessing gender gaps when it comes to economic opportunities, political empowerment, education and health between men and women.

Water Utilities Are Lagging Other Utilities in the Smart Cities Effort

Fri, 10/28/2016 - 10:00

Across the U.S., smart city programs are moving beyond press releases, pilot programs and demonstrations. Municipalities are collaborating with industry and utilities to create roadmaps defining their approach to regional integrated smart infrastructure. Water utilities, however, are lagging in the planning process, and risk losing their seat at the table with electric and gas utility peer companies as the smart city programs advance.

Millennials Are Coming and They Want Sustainable Investments

Wed, 10/26/2016 - 12:55

"Everyone is always so curious about millennials,” says Audrey Choi, chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing. “Especially in this space.”

2015 Provident Financial Group Corporate Responsibility Report Published

Thu, 10/27/2016 - 05:00

Provident Financial Group, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of responsible personal credit products to the non-standard lending market, has published its 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report.