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The launch this week of the Climate Transition Finance Handbook has propelled the sustainable debt market towards a new era, in which the emphasis moves from a labelled security to the issuer itself, writes Jon Hay. -
Sister affiliate alternative asset managers Candriam and New York Life Alternatives have bought a minority stake in European private credit firm Kartesia. The strategic partnership will bolster Kartesia’s financial position and keep the firm competitive as direct lenders in Europe increase their firepower.
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The sustainable finance market clamoured for a Taxonomy to tell it what was green. Now it’s here, many are finding the answers constraining or simplistic. Alarmingly, the Taxonomy is also perpetuating the very thing it was supposed to root out — greenwashing.
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The Loan Market Association has got its contractual ducks in a row as it prepares to launch a new platform to automate parts of the documentation process for loans and ancillary services, with the industry body looking to start the service early next year.
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The European Union’s Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities, the cornerstone of its action on sustainable finance, looks set to bless several technologies such as biofuels and hydroelectric power that are not just environmentally questionable but actively harmful, as a result of lobbying by vested interests.
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France and Germany will end up as the largest countries in the EU's capital markets after Brexit, including in primary equity and debt markets, according to new research from the think tank New Financial.
