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RBC hires MacKinnon for corp DCM
Ex-ANZ and UBS banker Allison MacKinnon will join RBC Capital Markets to lead its debt capital markets offering for UK companies.
22 Jul 2019 -
Legal ignorance chills bondholder engagement
Bondholders are still afraid to form alliances like those in the equity market to pressure issuers to improve their environmental, social and governance performance. They are paralysed by fear of market abuse and competition rules. But there is hope regulators will reassure them.
18 Jul 2019 -
People moves in brief
A victory for nominative determinism at BNPP — Värde Partners names new co-CEO — Credit Suisse hires Goldman banker for Saudi effort.
18 Jul 2019 -
What a QT! BofE lays out plans
Andrew Hauser, executive director, markets, at the Bank of England, outlined on Wednesday how his institution would slim down its balance sheet when the time came to do so. He said that this would likely involve selling assets rather than simply letting them run off, but explained that the bank would work in collaboration with the debt management office on this.
18 Jul 2019 -
Libya takes stake in EBRD
Libya has paid in capital to become a shareholder in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in a move that extends the development lender’s reach across the region.
18 Jul 2019 -
New Commission boss pledges €1tr of sustainable finance
After her narrowly passed confirmation vote in the European Parliament on Tuesday evening, new European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen is set to establish a sustainable investment plan and to green the European Investment Bank.
17 Jul 2019 -
ESM shakes up senior management
The European Stability Mechanism has reorganised its senior management team with a series of internal appointments and reshuffles.
17 Jul 2019 -
NatWest Markets launches ESG deposits
NatWest Markets, the investment bank owned by Royal Bank of Scotland, has launched its own environmental, social and governance deposit product, responding to a desire among companies, public bodies and investment firms to invest their cash ethically.
16 Jul 2019 -
Von der Leyen bids to green the EIB
Ursula von der Leyen has proposed setting up an EU sustainable investment plan and refocusing the European Investment Bank more around climate, in a list of written commitments sent to the bloc’s main political groups one day before she will be confirmed or rejected by the European Parliament as the next president of the European Commission.
15 Jul 2019 -
SEC warns of ‘exacerbated’ risks from delaying transition from Libor
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published a report highlighting the urgency for market participants to speed up the discontinuation and transition away from Libor to alternative reference rates.
15 Jul 2019
