June 17, 2025

New BMBF Research Project Launched: “Financial Education through Finfluencers? Supporting Reflective Learning with Explainer Videos”

New BMBF Research Project Launched: “Financial Education through Finfluencers? Supporting Reflective Learning with Explainer Videos” How do social media finfluencers shape young people’s financial literacy? And how can teachers use explainer videos effectively in the classroom? These are the central questions of our new interdisciplinary research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education […]

March 5, 2025

Report “ESG Communication” published

The report “ESG Communication: Insights into Issue Management, Greenwashing, and Crisis Communication” examines how companies manage ESG communication, mitigate greenwashing risks and deal with ESG-related crises.

January 28, 2025

Brief study “LinkedIn in supervisory board communication”

The new short study by CRiFC analyzes the LinkedIn communication of supervisory board members of DAX 40 companies.

October 8, 2024

CSRD for medium-sized and family businesses

The new research and transfer project examines how medium-sized and family-owned companies deal with the requirements of CSRD.

June 13, 2024

Results of the Finfluencer project

The results of the “Normate requirements of finfluencer relations” research project were presented to the project partners for the first time today.

February 19, 2024

Short study: Corporate purpose in financial communication

This CRiFC study examines the extent to which corporate purpose is addressed in the letters to shareholders of the DAX 40 companies.

September 13, 2023

Results of the study “Reporting Perspectives 2023

On Sept. 13, 2023, Prof. Dr. Christian Hoffmann presented the latest results of the “Reporting Perspectives” study during a webinar at the IR23-Autumn Edition conference.

June 22, 2023

Finfluencer project

A new research project by the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences and the University of Leipzig will shed light on the hitherto less transparent market of finfluencers and thus provide orientation for issuers.

January 27, 2023

New CRIFC brief study: The virtual AGM before and during the Covid 19 pandemic

Although holding (partially) virtual or hybrid Annual General Meetings would have been possible even before the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, only a few companies took advantage of this option. This changed when, due to emergency legislation (“Covid-19 Act”), it was only possible to hold the Annual General Meeting in virtual format from March 2020.

November 22, 2022

New CRiFC short study: “YouTube as a source of information for the new “Generation Share”

With the new “Generation Share”, the group of young private investors under 35 years of age is increasingly becoming the focus of practice and research in the financial sector. In a recent CRiFC study, the YouTube platform was identified as a popular source of information for capital market knowledge among the “Generation share”.