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Work to clarify thinking about impact in investment – meaning its effects on society or the environment – is going on apace. The International Finance Corp will launch next week at the World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Bali a set of Operating Principles for Impact Management, which are designed to complement the framework for analysing impact produced by the Impact Management Project.

Barclays is on the verge of signing up for four more years of its partnership with the Unreasonable Group, a company that supports high-achieving entrepreneurs leading businesses that solve social or environmental problems.

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) with ties to private equity firms such as KKR, Apollo Global Management and TPG Capital are originating loans at a blistering pace this year. To keep up, some life insurers and balance sheet lenders are mulling using leveraged instruments that non-traditional lenders are popularising.

Tesla has hired a capital markets professional who previously worked in project finance at a solar developer in California.

Hedge fund Shrewsbury River Capital has hired Dan Voloshin as a senior member of its commercial real estate investment team, according to an announcement from the firm on Tuesday.

Verizon priced its seventh mobile device payment plan ABS deal on Tuesday, with the issuer benefiting from better treatment from rating agencies, which allowed it to lower the credit enhancement in the structure.

Dmitry Gladkov has been promoted to be Renaissance Capital’s acting global head of investment banking, replacing James Friel.

Everyone with something they don’t know how to sell hitches their cart to the much-abused horse known as blockchain. Now, the UK chancellor is talking the technology up as a potential solution for the Irish border.

Elon Musk seems to have walked away relatively unscathed from his brief jostle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Tesla’s board must now deal with the mammoth task of trying to control the impulsive chief executive.

New issue euro CLO issuance has pushed past last year’s tally, with more deals still moving through the pipeline, but loan market technicals may erode the arbitrage for new deals, said Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Yann Gérardin, head of corporate and institutional banking at BNP Paribas, has been given a group level role as deputy chief operating officer responsible for the division, succeeding Alain Papiasse, who becomes chairman of CIB.

Italy’s latest political drama is making investors nervous, and rightly so — when the leader of a country’s main governing party accuses European leaders of market ‘terrorism’, in the vein of an ‘EU equals the USSR’ conspiracy theorist, then you’d be right to dump its bonds. But the steadiness of Spanish and Portuguese govvies through all this shows not only that the term ‘eurozone periphery’ may have to be consigned to the historical dustbin, but that the firewalls erected by those same European leaders after the last sovereign debt crisis are standing firm.