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  • CLO anchor investor Norinchukin Bank is said to be looking at a full calendar of deals in the next two months, leaving some managers not on the Japanese bank’s list planning to revive structures not seen since before the last crisis in a bid to drum up interest and improve the arbitrage function of their CLOs.
  • UBS has reorganised its debt capital markets business, following the decision of global head Amir Hoveyda to step down from his role. It will merge leveraged finance and DCM, with David Slade heading the combined group in EMEA.
  • Sustainable finance is bubbling with exciting new initiatives. But making people feel good is not enough. Activity needs to produce results, and so far there is more noise than movement. The tone is far too sedate — it needs some hard core activism to break the torpor.
  • 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.
  • Moody’s has acquired a majority stake in Vigeo Eiris, the environmental, social and governance research and ratings provider, as the credit rating agencies move increasingly into the area of ESG investing. The announcement comes just days after S&P Global launched its new ESG Evaluation product.
  • The creditworthiness of corporate borrowers in advanced economies has deteriorated while the volume of debt and financial risk taking has risen, the International Monetary Fund has warned. It also flagged up concerns about the sovereign-bank nexus in the eurozone and about market conditions for low income and frontier countries.