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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. -
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.
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A leaked letter from the European Parliament, seen by GlobalCapital, shows the Parliament has joined in the debate about the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, which has been watered down to make life easier for institutional investors. The Parliament is calling for the rules to be strengthened, to help savers know which investments are green and ensure compliance does not become just a “tick box exercise”.
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Crédit Agricole has appointed Christian Haller to head up its debt capital markets operation in Germany and Austria.
