Top Section/Ad
Top Section/Ad
Most recent
Collateral pools are diversified but industry cannot ignore broader implications of more frequent extreme weather
Oil and gas giant's return to Swiss francs achieves competitive pricing
Sun Belt states are driving a lot of securitization, but risks are lurking in these markets
Reverse mortgage deal joins Australian securitization party as UK ponders how to deal with maturing interest-only mortgages
More articles/Ad
More articles/Ad
More articles
-
Central banks have become integral to the fight against climate change in financial markets. Participants now expect them to wield their immense influence through many avenues of their work — economic analysis, metrics, supervision, investment and even monetary policy.
-
Pivotal players in capital markets through their credit ratings, rating agencies are responding to investors’ increasing focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors by providing ESG ratings too. But how do the two products differ and is there room for both, given ESG’s growing influence on credit risk? Experts from Moody’s ESG Solutions explain their approach. -
While the initial focus of sustainable finance efforts was largely on environmental action, social factors have grown increasingly prominent in recent years — underscored by the establishment of the Social Bond Principles in 2017. Subsequently, Covid and racial tensions in the US have each highlighted social disparities that are leading issuers and investors to treat diversity and inclusion as key parameters too.
-
Russian IPOs have long been beset by the political turmoil that surrounds their country’s relationship with the US. Many a deal has been sunk by US-Russia tension, particularly when sanctions are imposed by the former.
-
Is finance about to break out of the cocoon in which it has pupated for decades, and become a completely different life form?
-
The European Commission signalled this week that it would extend regulation into many more aspects of sustainable finance, driving an agenda that could change the role of capital markets in society. But although responsible investing experts welcomed it, the complex package of at least 30 measures is likely to provoke a wide variety of reactions, from enthusiastic support to complaints that it is too slow and unambitious, to outright opposition. Jon Hay reports.
