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  • Three of France’s best known entrepreneurs have partnered up to launch a special purpose acquisition vehicle (Spac) on the French stock exchange, which is seeking to invest in organic and sustainable consumer goods. The deal has made a fast start on its first day of book building.
  • There is every reason to be sceptical of the UK’s plan for a national infrastructure bank. Infrastructure is hard to finance because governments are unreliable. Combining hard assets expected to pay back over 30 years with democratic governments that change course every few makes private investors reluctant to treat long-term infra projects as a pure matter of credit risk.
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    Enel is planning €10bn of extra renewable energy investment in Europe, as a result of the support it hopes to get from the European Union’s €750bn recovery fund. But it believes the EU should refine its aid to subsidise sustainable finance more directly.
  • A new UK national infrastructure bank, announced by the government on Wednesday, is set to be up and running quickly, although details remain thin on the ground. While framed around infrastructure, a big part of its mandate could relate to the country's net zero carbon plans.
  • London-listed Gresham House Energy Storage Fund attracted strong interest from investors in its 114.3m share issue as green stocks continue to prove popular with ECM investors.
  • The Renewable Energy Infrastructure Group (Trig), a UK investment trust that invests in assets generating electricity from renewable sources, has launched a non-pre-emptive capital raising on the London Stock Exchange for acquisition funding. However, the size will depend on a shareholder vote in December.