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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. -
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.
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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.
