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Fitch: Sovereign sustainable bonds 'can be positive' for credit ratings
11 February 2022Fitch Ratings predicted the increasingly important role that sustainable bonds play in sovereign debt management could become credit positive for issuers in the future.
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Fitch warns climate poses growing sovereign credit risk
24 November 2021Some countries are likely to default on their debts in the future due to the impact of climate change, credit agency Fitch Ratings has warned.
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Fitch to use RepRisk data for its forthcoming ESG ratings
23 September 2021US financial company Fitch Group is partnering with Swiss data firm RepRisk on its newly launched ESG ratings arm for fixed income.
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Fitch launches ESG ratings for fixed income
15 September 2021Fitch Group, best known as a credit rating agency, today launched an ESG ratings arm that aims to produce...
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EU Green Bond Standard will struggle to become global 'gold standard', says Fitch
03 September 2021The EU Green Bond Standard (GBS) could struggle to become the global 'gold standard' without clearer alignment of international 'green' taxonomies
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'Green' money market fund growth faces 'significant' challenges
23 July 2021The emergence of an entirely 'green' money market fund (MMF) is currently unfeasible due to "significant implementation challenges" around lack of sufficiently diversified investment supply, according to Fitch Ratings, despite rising demand for such instruments.
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People Moves 16 July: Schroders, Fitch, Bridges, Finance for Tomorrow and more
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Petroleka to replace Tang as he moves to Schroders
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EU green asset ratio rules will improve bank comparability despite flaws, says Fitch
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Governance number one ESG factor for NBFI ratings, says Fitch
05 July 2021Fitch says governance is "by far the single most important ESG factor" for its ratings of non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) - and governance issues are increasingly likely to be reflected in credit ratings.