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  • Brussels has moved even faster than green finance experts hoped to bring forward its Sustainable Finance Action Plan, a document stuffed with measures to change the way financial markets operate and make them better fitted for the fight against climate change.
  • SRI
    The European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan, announced on March 8, involves no less than 10 different workstreams, covering a wide range of the ideas put forward by the High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, which held a one year inquiry for the European Commission during 2017.
  • The EU’s lenient treatment of the IFRS 9 accounting rules has opened a loophole for Italian banks — allowing them to push through punishing provisions on their NPL portfolios, but wish away the impact on their regulatory capital — which could save the weakest banks from turning to shareholders for more cash, and speed up portfolio sales.
  • SRI
    GlobalCapital can reveal the three most sustainable banks, as picked by Oekom Research in its 2018 Corporate Responsibility Review, which has not yet been published.
  • Société Générale has promoted Raj Malhotra to the position of head of debt capital markets for Asia Pacific, according to a press release on Wednesday.
  • The European Central Bank’s plans to press on with non-performing loan (NPL) reduction may be necessary, but in the wake of the Italian election, they could be the spark to ignite a political firestorm.