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Hectic negotiations and lobbying are going on at the European Commission about the Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities, in the last day before it is due to publish the detailed rules. Key countries including Germany have changed their positions, GlobalCapital can reveal, while supporters of gas and nuclear power are digging in. Battlelines are now being drawn over the timing.
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A new acronym is joining the sustainable finance lexicon — the SRD. The EU’s Sustainability Reporting Directive will become the cornerstone of corporate reporting on sustainability, which is the foundation of responsible investing. A draft of it has been leaked, showing that it will impose much stricter rules on companies about reporting their environmental and social impacts, but also contains loopholes.
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RBC Capital Markets has created a new leadership position at the top of its global public sector markets business, promoting a senior banker in Toronto to fill the role.
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DirectBooks, a platform for primary bond issuance initiated by a group of banks, has added the ability to handle euro and sterling deal announcements as well as a new senior member of staff to run its European business.
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The European Commission is set to put forward a new solution to the intense battle over the EU's sustainable finance Taxonomy, between green finance supporters and EU member states that want to safeguard their plans to use gas, GlobalCapital has learned. This would appear to involve leaving gas out of the sustainable category of the Taxonomy, as environmentalists have demanded, and making a "separate legislative proposal" to deal with gas and nuclear power.
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TCX is working with the European Commission to encourage more local currency lending. The experimental project will reduce the costs of cross-currency basis swaps for development lending.