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International issuers crowd into Swiss francs

Foreign corporate issuance running at record high
AI issuance is becoming increasingly concentrated — beware

ING banker moves to Asian Development Bank

Recently departed banker to resurface in Asia

Csquare's IPO to chip away at $3bn of ABS debt

IPO documents reveal data center portfolio purchase
AI issuance is becoming increasingly concentrated — beware
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  • 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.
  • SRI
    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.
  • SRI
    One by one, banks are taking responsibility to help fight climate change, by setting targets to eliminate carbon emissions from their whole financing portfolios by 2050. This will not suffice. Banks must learn a new way of interacting with clients.
  • HSBC provided $1.8bn of financing to high carbon companies including Kepco, which is developing new coal plants, in just five deals in the past four months, as it prepared to announce its “net zero ambition” on October 9, an NGO has alleged.
  • Indonesia coal producer Indika Energy was back in the debt market on Thursday with a $450m bond.
  • SSA
    Long used to scanning the horizon for risks, central banks have belatedly woken up to the biggest one of all — climate change. Monetary policy has so far been ignored — but the European Central Bank, until now on the fringes of this issue, is plunging in