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  • SLBs: 2024 issuance slumps as issuer wariness grows

    21 June 2024

    Sustainability-linked bond (SLB) issuance in 2024 is running at around half the volume reported in 2023, with issuers - both old and new - largely eschewing market.

  • Listing rules change will raise cost of capital for UK business, asset owners warn

    21 June 2024
  • UBS invests in impact and nature data firm GIST Impact

    21 June 2024

    UBS Next, the innovation unit of the Swiss financial giant, has invested in climate, impact and nature data firm GIST Impact.

  • Bogged down in Bonn

    21 June 2024

    Slow progress on negotiations on Article 6 in Bonn leaves much to be thrashed out at COP29, writes Genevieve Redgrave.

  • Loan round-up: FS Italiane, Epic, Philijalinna ... and more

    20 June 2024
  • Former Victory Hill CEO launches PE fund

    20 June 2024

    Tower Peak Partners (TPP), a new investment firm launched by the former chief executive and founding partner of Victory Hill Capital Partners, has begun fundraising for its maiden private equity strategy.

  • Aegon 'transforms' £12bn of assets with ESG and private markets push

    20 June 2024

    Aegon has awarded mandates to BlackRock and two other fund managers as it "revolutionises" its £12 billion ($15.2 billion) Universal Balanced Collection fund.

  • All 14 TNFD metrics interoperable with ESRS

    20 June 2024

    A new mapping of the interoperability between the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) has found a "high level of commonality".

  • United Bankers invests in Finnish bio-based fire protection business

    20 June 2024
  • Eurazeo backs €26m funding of low-carbon cement tech business

    20 June 2024