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• GlobalCapital launches Sustainable Financing and Investing Survey

  

  GlobalCapital is conducting a global research survey on the fast-changing markets for sustainable financing and investing. It will combine the views of issuers and investors to give a nuanced picture of how this trend is changing capital markets for both groups.

  • 19 Jun 2019

• Markets welcome EU Sustainable Finance announcements

  

  Four major announcements have been made today by the European Commission and its Technical Expert Group, which is drafting the substance of several parts of its multi-faceted Sustainable Finance Action Plan. There were new texts on the Taxonomy, Green Bond Standard and Low Carbon Benchmarks regulations as well as guidelines for companies on how to report climate change-related information. Many market participants welcomed them.

  • 18 Jun 2019

• Investor group ELFA preps covenant questionnaire

  

  The European Leveraged Finance Alliance has prepared a questionnaire on deal covenants, to help investors grill arrangers and issuers at roadshow meetings, circulating the standard question list to the market’s big investment banks, as well as to its investor members.

  • 18 Jun 2019

• BNP Paribas veteran to retire

  

  A long-standing capital markets practitioner is leaving BNP Paribas.

  • 14 Jun 2019

• Green bond market debates whether opex has a place in use of proceeds

  

  Green bond specialists are divided over whether proceeds of labelled green bonds can be used for operating expenditure, or whether they should mainly or entirely be used for capital expenditure.

  • 13 Jun 2019

• Green Bond Principles forms Advisory Council, gives new guidance

  The Green and Social Bond Principles’ executive committee has decided to leave the Principles unchanged this year, but is publishing three new documents on Thursday to help market participants. It also plans to launch an Advisory Council, to enable it to listen better to the concerns of the market.

  • 13 Jun 2019

• Wiserfunding’s SME ratings have potential CLO use

  

  Edward Altman, creator of the Z-score metric predicting corporate bankruptcies, has co-founded a new company that automates credit scores for small and medium sized firms. That could help provide ratings for the SME CLO market.

  • 12 Jun 2019

• Czornik returns to JP Morgan as Germany M&A head

  

  JP Morgan has hired Patrik Czornik to lead its M&A team for Germany. Czornik used to work for the bank in the past but then joined Goldman Sachs.

  • 12 Jun 2019

• CLO buyers could pay for manager’s disclosure failings

  Quirks of Europe’s new Securitisation Regulation, which came into force this year and is dominating debate at this year’s IMN/Afme Global ABS conference in Barcelona, could leave CLO buyers carrying the can for failures of CLO managers to meet their regulatory obligations.

  • 11 Jun 2019

• Houlihan hires Collinson for consumer products

  

  Michael Collinson has joined Houlihan Lokey as a managing director to lead its consumer products efforts in Europe. He comes from William Blair.

  • 11 Jun 2019

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