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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (Apra) hit Macquarie Bank with a A$500m ($378.4m) capital charge on Thursday, having uncovered serious faults in the firm's risk management practices. The announcement came a day after the bank paused its return to the sterling bond market. -
Deliveroo and its shareholders raised £1.5bn this week. The IPO was a dog, priced at the bottom of its range and falling 20% on its debut. But it’s hard to feel sympathy for the investors.
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An environmental activist institute has argued that the bookrunners of a Korea National Oil Corp $700m bond priced on Tuesday are being inconsistent with their own climate policies, and might even be taking legal risks, because of the issuer's exposure to tar sands oil production in Canada.
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The Federal Reserve said this week that it would lift all of its remaining restrictions on shareholder distributions for banks that can pass its next round of stress tests.
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The polite world of sustainable finance has collided with the ugly reality of politics in the past week, as open strife has broken out over the European Union’s sustainable finance legislation, especially the Taxonomy. Conservative and progressive elements are battling over a host of issues, above all whether gas power should ever be classed as sustainable, and the validity and even legality of the Taxonomy is being called into question.
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Swedish banks will have to maintain a countercyclical capital buffer worth 2% of their risk-weighted assets during normal times, according to new guidance from the nation’s Financial Supervisory Authority this week.
