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Banks and investors’ claims to be acting on climate change appear to clash with the financing they still provide in the real economy, research showed this week — such as plans to increase fossil fuel production and consumption, even in the UK and France. -
Look at any bank’s website or hear its CEO speak and you will get a torrent of virtuous words about climate change, sustainability and supporting clients on their journeys to net zero. The same goes for big investors, from BlackRock down, but the windows of their ivory towers are misted up with all the hot air being spouted.
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Dyal Capital, the US private equity firm that specialises in buying minority equity stakes in private equity and hedge fund managers, has employed a financing method — private placements securitized on fund cashflows — rarely seen before in its industry, writes Silas Brown.
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Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp (NTT) had a storming outing in the bond markets this week, easily raising €1bn in Europe and $8bn on the other side of the Atlantic to refinance M&A bridge debt.
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Emerging market loan bankers say that despite a drought of activity, discussions with Middle East borrowers may offer a reprieve.
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Bureau Veritas, the French laboratory testing company, has amended its €600m bank line to include ESG elements, as the company is on course to breeze through its relaxed covenant restrictions at the next evaluation.
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