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  • A surge in shareholder activism is providing banks with a lucrative new source of revenue, but they have to tread carefully or risk losing treasured corporate relationships, writes David Rothnie.
  • The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has published guidelines for companies looking to list on its new Science and Technology Innovation Board, as well as underwriters, including an unusual requirement for the sponsors of initial public offerings (IPOs) to commit to deals.
  • Neil Garrod, group treasury director at Vodafone and one of the best known figures in the European corporate bond market, is understood to be leaving the UK mobile phone group. He is in talks with another company about becoming its finance chief.
  • Sustainable finance is bubbling with exciting new initiatives. But making people feel good is not enough. Activity needs to produce results, and so far there is more noise than movement. The tone is far too sedate — it needs some hard core activism to break the torpor.
  • Goldman Sachs said that its equity underwriting pipeline swelled during the first quarter, with IPO interest rising among technology companies.
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    Estimated losses in the transition to a low carbon economy could top $20tr, according to a speech delivered on Monday by the Bank of England’s Sarah Breeden. The warning was delivered as the UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority published a new supervisory statement on plans to enhance banks’ and insurers’ management of risks from climate change.