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Former FTX engineer quietly became multimillion-dollar Democratic donor after new role at cryptocurrency exchange

A year after Nishad Singh became the company’s director of engineering, he quietly emerged as a reliable political donor for Democrats, according to over a dozen Federal Election Commission records reviewed by CNBC. Singh, who became FTX’s lead engineer in 2019 following a stint at Bankman-Fried’s trading firm Alameda Research, has donated more than $13 million to …

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Framework, Schmamework: ESG that focuses on improvement over exclusion

“We’ve been doing ESG far, far longer than it’s been fashionable,” Niall Mills, Global head of Igneo Infrastructure Partners commented at a recent investor update. The problem with ESG becoming more fashionable in recent years is that frameworks used to prove ESG credentials can also serve to detract from the quality of the actual implementation. …

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