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Crédit Agricole has appointed Christian Haller to head up its debt capital markets operation in Germany and Austria. -
This week 35 investors with $8.5tr of assets — many of them UK and Nordic pension funds — launched the Net Zero Investment Framework, a primer for investors wanting to decarbonise their portfolios. Faith Ward, chair of the Institutional Investors’ Group on Climate Change, answers some key questions for GlobalCapital about why the Framework is important and how it will be implemented.
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HSBC has agreed to tighten its policies on climate transition and coal funding, in response to a shareholder motion calling on it to phase out fossil fuel financing. The move underlines the power investors have to accelerate change on environmental and social issues using shareholder votes, and could raise the bar for other banks.
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The prospect of investors exerting real pressure on companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including divesting from big polluters, came a step closer on Wednesday with the release of the Net Zero Investment Framework, a map to guide investors on the journey to carbon neutrality.
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Davy, the Irish brokerage firm, has shut its bond desk with immediate effect following a damning investigation by the Central Bank of Ireland which found a group of employees breached markets regulation for personal financial again over a period of two years.
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Large US banks want the Federal Reserve to extend a measure allowing them to exclude Treasury bond exposures from their leverage ratio calculations. But other industry figures are pushing back. Senators have warned against the risks of letting temporary Covid support become more permanent.
