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The Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, is adding a “negative screening” process to its purchases of corporate bonds under its quantitative easing programme, meaning it will no longer buy the bonds of the most polluting companies. -
The first move has been made to consolidate the alphabet soup of industry bodies that try to raise standards in corporate reporting on environmental, social and governance issues — an essential feedstock for responsible investing. More mergers are likely as the private sector races to strengthen its influence before regulators take control.
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Schroders, the UK asset management company, has partnered with Big Society Capital to seek to list a new fund on the London Stock Exchange to invest in assets which have a positive social impact on the UK.
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In the US, stock exchanges have clashed with proxy advisers. Now, those exchanges' German peer Deutsche Börse has bought a majority stake in one of the major advisers, ISS — but says it will ensure the latter's independence.
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The securitization market is pushing back against proposals in the European Parliament to tack a green framework for ABS deals onto existing discussions about NPL and synthetic securitizations that were supposed to be rapid-fire amendments to help the market fight off Covid-induced economic woes. Tom Brown reports.
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An accounting standard was launched on Wednesday that could prove a major step forward in how banks and investors calculate their contributions to climate change, and their progress towards net zero emissions.
