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  • Three unprecedented events this week — a landmark court ruling against Shell and shareholder revolts at Chevron and ExxonMobil — signalled that investors and society at large have rejected the oil industry’s early attempts at joining the low carbon transition and are looking for much more radical action. Oil majors retain good access to capital markets, but the clock is ticking. Jon Hay reports.
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    Belarus this week gave investors a chance to demonstrate the ESG credentials they are often so keen to trumpet. Few took it. Although the country’s sovereign bonds sold off in the wake of the controversial arrest of a journalist on Sunday, investors gave a number of reasons why issues such as human rights violations were no deterrent to buying an issuer’s bonds. But there are signs those excuses may not hold up for ever, writes Mariam Meskin.
  • Greek banks are in their rudest health since the aftermath of the global financial crisis and are calling on capital markets investors to back them as they help the country rebuild its economy in the wake of Covid-19. With the banks able to access new sources of capital, propped up by the country's Hercules non-performing loan guarantee scheme, plenty of supply — and performance — could follow, report Tom Brown, Tyler Davies and Sam Kerr.
  • A busy European IPO calendar grew on Thursday, with banks pushing more deals into the market despite growing investor fatigue and volatile equity indices.
  • Equity capital markets bankers have showed this week they are happier to underwrite big block trades for clients than they were earlier in the year, a sign of a healthy market for large secondary sales.
  • Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (Adnoc) raised $1.64bn from the sale of exchangeable bonds and shares in Adnoc Distribution, its listed fuel distribution subsidiary, having attracted a “massive” amount of demand from investors, according to a source close to the deal.
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