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The Asia Pacific Loan Market Association, a trade body, has appointed Pedro Cheung as its new chairman. -
Companies with highly structured financial arrangements involving a combination of secured bonds and loans face a particularly arduous second half of the year as they grapple with the transition away from Libor.
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A Dutch court has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell is partly responsible for climate change and must reduce its global carbon emissions — including those caused when customers burn its products — by 45% from 2019 levels by 2030. If the ruling is sustained on appeal it would cause a seismic shift in the balance of power on climate change, with huge implications for financial markets.
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The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has launched a series of surveys ‘to understand the potential conflicts of interest and misaligned incentives among participants in the leveraged loan and CLO markets’, inviting bank lenders, CLO investors, loan sponsors, and CLO managers to give them feedback.
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Deutsche Bank held a three hour “deepdive” into its sustainability actions for clients, investors, the press and NGOs last week, with its CEO Christian Sewing and all its business heads. It coincided with an array of announcements, which even earned a favourable comment from Moody’s, including that Deutsche is accelerating its €200bn sustainable financing target. But those hoping for more detail on how Deutsche will decarbonise its financing were disappointed.
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More details about the financing structure Daimler will use after its trucks and buses business is spun-off and listed are emerging. The demerger will create two separate capital markets operations out of a company that has been Europe’s second largest corporate bond issuer of the past decade.
