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    The economic potential of renewable energy is awesome, and should make fossil fuels obsolete by 2050, according to a new study by Carbon Tracker. But despite the compelling cost arguments for renewables, an enormous political effort will still be needed to accelerate their adoption if disastrous climate change is to be avoided.
  • Neoen, the French renewable energy company, completed a €600m rights issue at the start of April to help fund it until 2025. Its CFO, Louis-Mathieu Perrin, spoke to GlobalCapital about the deal and explained how green equity stories can still win investors’ attention, despite a recent cooling off in stock valuations.
  • HSBC has appointed Jean-Manuel Richier as co-head of global banking and head of investment banking in continental Europe after the previous holder of the position, Hubert Preschez, left for M&A boutique Messier and Associés.
  • UK broker Peel Hunt and Santander have joined forces to do deals for UK corporate clients seeking to raise equity capital. Peel Hunt will now have the firepower of Santander’s balance sheet to be able to underwrite both primary and secondary transactions for its large UK clients.
  • SRI
    Market participants will embark in the coming weeks on the difficult task of working out how to use the European Union’s sustainable finance Taxonomy, after the first criteria were published this week. In doing so, they will be conscious that the smooth tide of green finance is now breaking against the hard reality of power politics and resistance by fossil fuel industries — a clash that is rocking the Taxonomy’s credibility, writes Jon Hay.
  • Piraeus Financial Holdings, the Greek holding company which owns Piraeus Bank, has launched a capital raise to give it the firepower needed to offload non-performing loans and has already secured enough demand on one morning of book-building to cover the deal.