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A few brave souls at supranational institutions spoke out this week in favour of pricing green bonds inside vanilla deals — and rightly so. Investors’ conscience salving shouldn’t be free. -
GlobalCapital met a senior banker at a rival firm this week, who, when asked what he’d do as chief executive of Deutsche Bank, mimed placing a gun to his temple. Chief executive Christian Sewing has been in the job less than a month, and has opted to turn his gun on the bank’s US business instead.
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Two pieces of news this week highlight how environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is conquering the capital markets. But both carry a risk of intellectual laziness.
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The derivatives industry is engaging with efforts to create credible alternative reference rates to Libor, but three years is too little time to achieve this and more attention needs to focus on the existing benchmark itself.
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Ewald Nowotny, governor of the Bank of Austria, has long been counted as having one of the more hawk-like squawks among members of the European Central Bank's governing council. But even he caused a shock this week with his discussion of impending rate hikes.
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In the past, some investors were able to draw a line dividing the Russian businesses in which they parked their cash from Vladimir Putin’s government, despite what some have called a “feudal” hierarchy in the country. Last week’s US sanctions obliterated that line.
