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ABN Amro fortifies FIG lead in EuGBs with sterling's first

Funding head Ruud Jaegers on pioneering green bonds, pricing dynamics of EuGBs and heavier focus on senior preferred issuance
Big data energy needs set to help drive utility issuance higher next year

Vital Care increases medical infusion securitization

First deal of its kind more than 1.5 times subscribed

Financing for data centres in Europe to evolve with stricter ESG criteria to reshape deals

Debt financing to become more sophisticated as the race to build data centres across Europe heats up
Big data energy needs set to help drive utility issuance higher next year
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    Outrage at the destruction of the Amazon rainforest — which often involves dispossessing indigenous people — is common among capital markets executives. But few realise that their own firms are financing it.
  • GlobalCapital has argued that it is not the ECB’s job to exclude individual borrowers’ bonds from its list of repo-eligible securities on environmental grounds, in response to our call for the Province of Alberta’s debt to be removed from its list of eligible marketable assets (EMA). We maintain that the ECB has plenty of justification to exclude this borrower.
  • China’s ecological and financial regulators have jointly published guidelines around climate change-related financing and investment.
  • The threat to biodiversity is moving up the agenda of financial markets, but banks are woefully unprepared, a new study has found — in fact, they are actively financing what scientists believe is a mass extinction of species.
  • An ESG think tank believes that the European Central Bank should drop Alberta’s euro bonds from its list of eligible marketable assets, as a punishment for its support for polluting industries. But while it is a laudable aim, it is not practicable.
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    UK banks and building societies are struggling with difficult aspects of incorporating climate change into their risk management, as demanded by the regulator, a PwC survey has found. The answer to some of their problems could be a non-risk initiative: science-based targets.