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In this round-up, China passes a law that will enable reciprocal measures against foreign sanctions, the US president signs an executive order lifting bans on Chinese applications, and the central bank will start quarterly evaluation of the green finance performance of major lenders.
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UniCredit has made a new senior hire in Asia to lead its client activities for South Korea.
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Deutsche Bank has hired two former Barclays bankers to support its China business.
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Bank of America has set up an EMEA ESG strategic council chaired and led by three senior investment bankers, to intensify its effort to reduce its carbon footprint and manage its climate risks. BofA made a net zero commitment in February but has not yet set out its decarbonisation trajectory.
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The UK has begun the process of creating its own versions of the European Union’s sustainable finance regulations, by picking a Green Technical Advisory Group to help it draft a green taxonomy. It will face two conflicting priorities: to maximise harmonisation by staying close to EU rules; and to depart from them, for a variety of reasons including the possibility of improving on the EU’s approach.
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The Green and Social Bond Principles organisation published the first new version of the Green Bond Principles since 2018 on Thursday. It strengthens the recommendations that issuers publish a bond framework and obtain an external review, and encourages issuers to communicate about their organisation-wide sustainability efforts, not just the assets linked to the labelled bond.
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