Eight Advisory, a consulting firm in Transactions, Restructuring, and Transformation, has opened a new office in Cologne, its fourth in Germany. Eight Advisory develops its pan-European network, with strong operations in France, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland and Netherlands, to provide seamless support and added value to both corporate and private equity clients on complex cross-border operations. The Eight Advisory Cologne office will be headed by Curt-Oliver Luchtenberg, who joined Eight Advisory together with some other highly experienced colleagues and will lead the Transformation practice in Germany. This already strong team will also be able to call on the expertise

Accrete, an alternative asset management technology platform designed to unlock private investment opportunities for those historically boxed out by six-figure minimum investments, has launched.

The CFA Society of the UK (CFA UK) has launched a new qualification, the Certificate in Climate and Investing (CCI).

Data-led ESG platform GaiaLens has launched its real-time ESG news service, GaiaLens Momentum, to capture and process all relevant news for over 16,000 public companies.

The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has published a new component for the Paris Aligned Investment Initiative (PAII)’s Net Zero Investment Framework (NZIF), providing guidance on aligning private equity portfolios with net zero that is relevant to both GPs and LPs.

Fluence, a specialist in energy storage products and services, and digital applications for renewables and storage, and Pexapark, a provider of software and advisory services for renewable energy sales and risk management, have entered into a long-term strategic partnership to provide customers with a powerful combination of insights required to navigate and lead through the clean energy transition.

Clir Renewables, a market intelligence platform for wind and solar, has launched a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) service.

Bittrex Global has launched Bittrex Global Starting Block, a new Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) platform built to support high-caliber cryptocurrency projects looking to partner with an industry leader in security and compliance to take their project to the next level.