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A European green bond standard and a classification system for sustainable assets were two of the suggestions issued on Thursday by a group of experts advising the European Union on how to make the financial system sustainable — one of the commitments in the Paris Agreement, writes Jon Hay.
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Asset manager Pimco said the launch of Bond Connect addressed important concerns by foreign investors, but added that the outlook for the RMB remained somewhat bearish. -
Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (Cades), the French social security debt agency, is set to form a much closer working arrangement with Agence France Trésor, the French sovereign debt office, in an effort to reduce operational risk.
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Barclays confirmed on Thursday that it had hired Filippo Zorzoli to head macro distribution for EMEA and Asia Pacific, and head solutions sales globally. The hire forms part of the firm’s rebuild of its macro business, and is likely to be followed by further senior hires, as reported by GlobalCapital in May.
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The drive to get companies to face up to the risk of climate change is gathering momentum. Firms with a combined market capitalisation of about $3.5tr have committed to support the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), which published its final report on Thursday.
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ABN Amro is returning to the supranational and agency DCM sector, marking what the bank says is a “formal re-entry” to the market with a hire from a rival house.
