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MUFG has for the first time chosen a single leader for its banking and securities divisions in EMEA. John Winter will take the post from April 1, meaning that the most senior executive in EMEA will be non-Japanese for the first time.
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Law firm Linklaters has added two new partners to its Hong Kong office to strengthen its business in private equity and leveraged finance investments. -
Etrading Software has launched a system to ramp up the efficiency of loan trading, enabling dealers to strip out the motley collection of spreadsheets, emails, instant messages still used in the market and centralise crucial information ahead of executing loan trades.
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HSBC has agreed to tighten its policies on climate transition and coal funding, in response to a shareholder motion calling on it to phase out fossil fuel financing. The move underlines the power investors have to accelerate change on environmental and social issues using shareholder votes, and could raise the bar for other banks.
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Tesco, the UK supermarket chain, has reacted quickly by setting new targets to sell healthier food, less than a month after a group of shareholders filed a resolution calling for this — a sign of how sensitive companies are to having environmental, social and governance motions voted on at their annual general meetings.
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The UK’s monetary policy will officially be designed to fight climate change from now on, after chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak changed the Bank of England’s mandate this week, delighting sustainable finance campaigners.
