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Green quantitative easing is having a moment. As the European Central Bank restarts the ordinary brown kind of money printing, buying corporate and public sector bonds, a broad range of commentators, from left wing activists to BlackRock’s head of official institutions, argue that central banks ought to put their balance sheet power in play to green the world. But turning to the central banks is a counsel of despair. The technocrats should be a last resort; it is politicians who should be in the vanguard. -
The European Central Bank let markets look under the bonnet of its new Corporate Sector Purchase Programme on Monday, and the only thing the raw data has confirmed is that omnipotent central banks like to move in mysterious ways seemingly at odds with what the market wants or needs.
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Mediobanca’s plan for the next four years involves boosting advisory origination and using capital more efficiently in its corporate and investment bank (CIB). It is also committed to issuing a sustainability themed bond.
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Antonio Brina is joining JP Morgan from Bank of America Merrill Lynch to lead basic materials investment banking for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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David Miller has become the new chief executive of Credit Suisse’s investment banking and capital markets (IBCM) unit, replacing James Amine.
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The greening of the banking sector is only skin deep, research published on Monday indicates. Analysis of 58 of the world’s biggest banks shows they are spending more time thinking about climate change, but few have tried to stop financing it, or even talk to clients about how they could improve.
