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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. -
Covered bond spreads are expected to widen if the European Central Bank increases its deposit rate from minus 0.4% to 0% across its whole portfolio. But some market participants think the ECB will adopt a tiered approach to the €2tr of excess liquidity held on deposit, which should not greatly affect covered bond spreads.
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Goldman Sachs said that its equity underwriting pipeline swelled during the first quarter, with IPO interest rising among technology companies.
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Citi’s institutional clients group registered a higher revenue in the EMEA region than it did in North America in the first quarter of the year, the first time this had happened in more than six years.
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UniCredit has settled with US authorities and agreed to pay about $1.3bn for breaking US sanctions, but the Italian bank said this amount was fully covered by provisions.
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Enel and NextEra Energy have, on a pilot basis, become the first companies to obtain one of S&P Global’s new ESG Evaluations. The product, launched last week, takes S&P into direct competition with providers of ESG ratings like MSCI and Sustainalytics — and with Moody’s, which a few days after S&P’s launch acquired Vigeo Eiris, the French-based ESG rating firm.
