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Bitcoin ABS edges forward as price plunge turns collateral to cash

When loans' LTVs hit 80%, Bitcoin stakes are liquidated in seconds
London continues to benefit from metal price volatility

Congo picked the best of an unappealing bunch of options

The yield was ultra high but Congo had little room to manoeuvre

Yondr takes the stage, as Europe’s data centre ABS market comes of age

US market remains the model as template issuance takes shape
London continues to benefit from metal price volatility
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    CDP, the leading platform through which companies report their carbon emissions, has become the latest organisation to launch a potentially influential system of temperature ratings, so investors can work out how much global warming each company’s plans will theoretically lead to — and hence the overall temperature of a portfolio.
  • If UK pension savers knew how their money was invested, funds would be more inclined to invest exclusively in environmental, social and governance (ESG) assets. So argues Richard Curtis, the screenwriter, director and co-founder of Comic Relief. He has launched a public campaign, Make My Money Matter, to pressure UK pension funds to invest more sustainably.
  • As tensions between Argentina and its largest bondholders climbed this week, the government’s prize asset, oil firm YPF, differentiated itself with a debt exchange that, according to rating agencies, does not punish creditors — unlike the sovereign’s proposals.
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    Environmental, social and governance investors have been patting themselves on the back this year because their funds have tended to outperform during the coronavirus crisis. But a San Francisco hedge fund believes they are doing a poor job of shielding investors from the general risk of the stockmarket and more quantitative methods would improve the outcome.
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    A survey by Deutsche Bank this week challenged the consensus that investors' interest in environmental, social and governance funds has been intensified by the coronavirus crisis. On the contrary, it argues: appetite has weakened.
  • An Indonesian palm oil company has become the latest to fall victim to rising worries among loans bankers about government support. The company missed a payment last week, after bankers rejected an earlier covenant waiver request. Pan Yue reports.