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Transition plans and disclosure rules will be central to UK’s bid for sustainable finance leadership
Council publishes Omnibus amendments, Efrag update on ESRS review
◆ EU’s securitization plan leaked ◆ The first new EM sovereign issuer for years ◆ Who can be sued for climate change?
Case against power company dismissed but NGOs believe precedent for action has been established
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This week in Keeping Tabs: the former governor of the Bank of England on value and values, The New Republic on law and value, reminiscing about the last crisis, and a pub snack en vogue. -
The European Parliament and Council have agreed rules that will set the stage for securitization to play a role in helping European banks dig their way out of an impending surge in defaulted loans. The Parliament has added sustainability criteria to the final amendments.
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The sustainable finance market clamoured for a Taxonomy to tell it what was green. Now it’s here, many are finding the answers constraining or simplistic. Alarmingly, the Taxonomy is also perpetuating the very thing it was supposed to root out — greenwashing.
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The European Union’s Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities, the cornerstone of its action on sustainable finance, looks set to bless several technologies such as biofuels and hydroelectric power that are not just environmentally questionable but actively harmful, as a result of lobbying by vested interests.
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Flutter Entertainment, the parent of bookies Paddy Power and Betfair, has returned to the equity capital markets with a £1.1bn share sale to finance its acquisition of a stake in FanDuel Group, the New York-based fantasy sports and online casino company.
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Three of the biggest asset managers, BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, are still voting against most shareholder motions on climate change, human rights and other sustainability issues, despite their insistence that they take environmental and social matters seriously. Often their ‘no’ votes are decisive in blocking resolutions — even though most are only asking for better disclosure.
