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GC Podcast: Revised guidance — ECB hunkers down for the long haul
The ECB this week gave the capital markets a clear indication that its monetary policy will remain extremely loose. It has tweaked not only its inflation target but its forward guidance, which outlines how it plans to achieve this. But what does that mean for borrowers and investors in the capital markets?
23 Jul 2021 -
BlackRock voting change raises hopes of further progress
BlackRock, the world’s largest investor, has upped its game on engaging with companies about environmental, social and governance issues this year, especially climate change, under a new manager. But responsible investment supporters are still hoping for more progress, and that the big investors will make the link between their engagement activities and their support for capital markets issues.
22 Jul 2021 -
Dry landscape: investors lack ways to shed water risk
Electric cables have melted, tarmac buckled, businesses closed. Forests and towns have burned. The western US and Canada are in the grip of a savage drought. It ought to be called a once in a lifetime event; unfortunately, that is unlikely to be the case.
22 Jul 2021 -
Créd Ag hires Santander's former head of banking and corporate finance
Crédit Agricole has hired the former head of Santander's global banking and corporate finance business, Georg Orssich, in a regional management position.
22 Jul 2021 -
Barclays loses EMEA head of corporate DCM to rival
Charlotte Weir is leaving Barclays after more than 20 years with the firm, most recently as head of corporate debt capital markets in EMEA, for a job at another bank in London.
20 Jul 2021 -
RBC's Neal heads to corporate bond trading platform
Michelle Neal has left her position as head of US fixed income, currencies and commodities trading at RBC Capital Markets in New York to take a leading role at high tech corporate bond trading platform LedgerEdge.
20 Jul 2021 -
CS picks six green bankers including net zero and biodiversity leads
Credit Suisse has filled six roles in its sustainability strategy, advisory and finance (SSAF) group, headed by Marisa Drew, including a global head of net zero strategy.
19 Jul 2021 -
Santander soups up US bonds business with broker-dealer purchase
Santander intends to enhance its fixed income offering in the US by buying Amherst Pierpont Securities, a broker-dealer based in New York, for $600m.
19 Jul 2021 -
Investec pushes further into levfin with hires from ABN Amro, Deloitte
Investec has hired two new staffers to its growth and leveraged finance team, after launching an inaugural direct lending fund at the start of 2021.
13 Jul 2021 -
EC sustainable finance Strategy: big on ideas, short on action
The European Commission signalled this week that it would extend regulation into many more aspects of sustainable finance, driving an agenda that could change the role of capital markets in society. But although responsible investing experts welcomed it, the complex package of at least 30 measures is likely to provoke a wide variety of reactions, from enthusiastic support to complaints that it is too slow and unambitious, to outright opposition. Jon Hay reports.
08 Jul 2021
