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The polite world of sustainable finance has collided with the ugly reality of politics in the past week, as open strife has broken out over the European Union’s sustainable finance legislation, especially the Taxonomy. Conservative and progressive elements are battling over a host of issues, above all whether gas power should ever be classed as sustainable, and the validity and even legality of the Taxonomy is being called into question. -
The US securities regulator has introduced rules that would delist foreign companies from local stock exchanges if they do not comply with US auditing standards. Shares in Chinese companies dual listed in Hong Kong and the US dived following the move.
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Thomas Gottstein, CEO of Credit Suisse, has called the Greensill crisis ‘an asset management problem’. But it will have far-reaching consequences and raises questions over the integrated model that it and other banks deploy, writes David Rothnie
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Goldman Sachs has been offering UK specialist lenders terms for mortgage warehouses, in a radical shift in securitized products strategy for the US investment bank, which has concentrated most of its recent primary markets efforts on principal deals. The move puts it into competition with commercial banks with bigger balance sheets and cheaper capital, but could send waves through the sector.
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NatWest Markets is offering warehouse terms for new CLOs again, reflecting the reorganisation of the bank’s operations and an increased focus on sponsor financing for the UK bank.
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Swedish banks will have to maintain a countercyclical capital buffer worth 2% of their risk-weighted assets during normal times, according to new guidance from the nation’s Financial Supervisory Authority this week.
