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Actiam, the Dutch asset manager, has launched what it believes is the first investment strategy built around the nine planetary boundaries — an attempt to describe the ecological limits within which humans can live sustainably on Earth. -
The China Securities Regulatory Commission has cut in half the lock-up period for converting global depository receipts (GDRs) into A-shares for the London-Shanghai Stock Connect, expected to launch later this year.
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The Bank of England announced on Monday a consultation on a package of measures to tighten its scrutiny of banks’ and other financial firms’ readiness for climate change. The Bank’s approach is gradualist, but it is signalling clearly that firms must take the financial risks from climate change seriously, and that regulation in this area will be ramped up.
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Standard Chartered’s RMB internationalisation index hit a nearly two-year high, State Street entered the RMB qualified foreign institutional with a splash, and index provider IHS Markit partnered with a Chinese clearinghouse for a new set of bond indices.
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IMF data shows the renminbi saw a nearly 40% jump in global foreign exchange reserves in Q2, the US Treasury introduced interim rules to monitor Chinese investment in US firms, and the US Treasury is also likely set to name China a currency manipulator as early as next week.
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World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim plans to take the new Human Capital Index he launched on Thursday to Davos in the new year, where he will urge CEOs of companies in lagging countries to invest in health and education.
