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Ed Mulderrig has been appointed head of European debt syndicate at UBS, the latest in a series of changes to the responsibilities of the firm's senior debt capital markets bankers. -
Veteran equity analyst and forensic accountant Steve Clapham believes it is stories that drive investment decisions and seldom cold analysis of financial accounts. But he believes it is hard to find a company which isn’t engaged in some level of financial wrongdoing and argues that auditors are blind to it, wilfully or otherwise.
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There is every reason to be sceptical of the UK’s plan for a national infrastructure bank. Infrastructure is hard to finance because governments are unreliable. Combining hard assets expected to pay back over 30 years with democratic governments that change course every few makes private investors reluctant to treat long-term infra projects as a pure matter of credit risk.
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The first move has been made to consolidate the alphabet soup of industry bodies that try to raise standards in corporate reporting on environmental, social and governance issues — an essential feedstock for responsible investing. More mergers are likely as the private sector races to strengthen its influence before regulators take control.
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Enel is planning €10bn of extra renewable energy investment in Europe, as a result of the support it hopes to get from the European Union’s €750bn recovery fund. But it believes the EU should refine its aid to subsidise sustainable finance more directly.
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MUFG is overhauling personnel and its business model to try to escape a cycle of low returns, writes David Rothnie.
