Desmos Capital: Chris Skidmore launches 'boutique' bank to support net zero scale ups

Stuart Stone
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Desmos Capital: Chris Skidmore launches 'boutique' bank to support net zero scale ups

New investment bank to raise private capital to fund firms focused on future clean technologies and 'transforming the world’

Former Energy Minister and author of the previous government's Net Zero Review, Chris Skidmore, has launched a new private investment bank Desmos Capital Partners in a bid to support scale-up firms and...

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