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German 'engagement platform' group to push BaFin for legal assurances

A group developing a German "platform" for collaborative sustainability engagement is to ask regulator BaFin to approve its process, to allay investor fears of being punished for acting in concert.

Austria raises €3bn from shorter-dated green bond

Austria has raised €3 billion ($3.3 billion) from its second green bond as the country looks to build out the yield curve for its green bond programme...

Take action 'ahead of regulation', urges Bank of England

The Bank of England has urged financial institutions to take action on sustainability and not wait for policy and regulation to be developed.

Investors 'given free hand' to define sustainable investment under SFDR

The European Commission has declined a request to define what constitutes a sustainable investment under SFDR, a decision which has split industry experts, Michael Hurley writes

Mirova's natural capital investments reach €676m

LGIM and NTR raise €390m for clean power fund

Taxonomy-linked 'greenwashing' rules could hurt EM transition financing

Regulations to tackle greenwashing which are tied to European 'green' taxonomies could inadvertently constrain "necessary" transition financing in emerging markets, according to Fidelity International.

Impact verifiers BlueMark raise $10 million

Climate transition to weigh on credit worthiness, says S&P

Preparing for the climate transition will weigh on credit ratings, S&P has said, but limited sustainability policy means action by the credit ratings agency has been muted so far.

Goldman Sachs AM wants firms to tackle controversies with social bonds

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) would like to see companies use social bonds to tackle controversies in their supply chains, an executive has said.