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Californian utility firm PG&E’s impending bankruptcy filing, on the back of unprecedented liabilities for wildfire damage in the state, is a warning sign that investors may find it impossible to predict how the climate crisis will threaten companies, both quickly and slowly. -
Fitch Ratings has remedied its long lack of a visible response to the rise of environmental, social and governance investing by launching a set of ESG relevance scores.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority has launched three consultations on how sustainability risks and factors should be integrated into the main regulations governing European securities and investment markets — MiFID II, Ucits, the AIFMD and the Credit Rating Agency Regulation.
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Participants at a Transparency Task Force symposium on Monday told representatives of three UK financial regulators they welcomed their efforts to step up oversight of the financial system’s response to climate change — but they called for regulators to be more ambitious, as scientists say the world has 12 years left to get global warming under control.
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Sustainability is conquering finance — to judge by what the industry likes to talk about. Outside the window, the real economy continues much as before. Is all the noise about green finance actually shifting capital in the right direction — or is it just making people feel better?
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London has peaked as Europe’s capital markets hub. But how much of the business it will lose is still to play for. Bankers’ faith that only some functions need go looks misplaced. The stage is set for a drawn-out poker game between banks wanting to stay in London and continental regulators who hold a strong hand.
