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Another piece of the jigsaw of greener financial markets was inserted on Tuesday last week, though hardly anyone noticed. Under the EU’s new Investment Firms Regulation, asset managers and investment banks will have to disclose their environmental, social and governance risks, including from stranded assets, and how they vote in shareholder meetings. The requirements are quite radical and amount to insisting that all firms practice ESG investing. -
Amid the blizzard of legislation going through Brussels in the dying days of the present Commission and Parliament’s mandate, little attention was paid last week to the new rules governing how investment managers and investment banks are supervised. But they have big implications, including bringing investment banks such as Barclays and Goldman Sachs under the European Central Bank.
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The Bank of England is rebooting a crisis-era tool for its banks. Firms will be able to use its liquidity facility in euros (LiFE) from next week, as central banks seek to avert a liquidity crunch in a no-deal Brexit scenario.
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Nasdaq has raised its offer price to buy Norwegian exchange group Oslo Børs (OSE), matching the revised offer tabled by rival Euronext last month.
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John McFarlane, chair of Barclays, said on Monday that he hoped the EU would not turn its back on London in the Brexit negotiations. However, he expected financial activity to move out of London to Europe, and thought that — on a global scale — faster-growing economies in Asia and the US, and big technology firms, could reshape the financial industry.
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In this round-up, the US trade representative’s office announced the delay of a China tariff increase, the Shanghai Stock Exchange released detailed rules for its tech board and China’s annual planning session gets set to address issues including economic growth targets and foreign market access
