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Michael ‘Woody’ Sherwood, former co-chief executive of Goldman Sachs International, has joined the board of Credit Benchmark, a financial technology company that uses the internal risk models of financial institutions to create a consensus ‘benchmark’ for risk.
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The Spanish supreme court’s recent ruling that banks should pay certain taxes on mortgage loans harmed the lenders’ trading levels and hindered primary debt market access. Ratings agency DBRS estimates that, in the unlikely worst-case scenario, the sector could face a retroactive bill of €16.9bn. -
The African Development Bank’s $500m portfolio credit insurance deal, to be announced on Monday October 22, is one of the first of its kind, but is very likely to be followed by further such transactions, as experience in this area grows and other development finance institutions explore the potential benefits.
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Multilateral development banks are increasingly seeking creative ways to strengthen their arms by getting private capital to invest alongside them, magnifying their efforts. The International Finance Corp has long been one of the most active in this field, and thanks to a fund it launched five years ago, it last year achieved a co-investment ratio of over 100%.
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Green finance experts have hailed the Bank of England’s announcement this week that it intends to tighten supervision of financial firms’ climate risks as an important step forward in greening the financial system. But doubts remain as to whether the Bank will push firms far enough, fast enough.
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The UK's Prudential Regulation Authority will soon begin supervising banks and insurance companies on their approach to the physical and transition risks of climate change.
