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Loan round-up: Element Materials, Frasers Property, Netcompany, Benchmark ... and more

Impact investor receives prestigious honour

An impact investor is to receive an award from the UK's royal family, with the announcement made to coincide with a national celebration of 70 years of the Queen's reign.

BoE's Breeden warns against 'paper decarbonisation'

There is a risk of a failed energy transition if financial institutions do not back up their transition plans with investment to decarbonise heavy-emitting activities, a senior Bank of England official has warned.

Bond round-up: Germany, France, CCB, NAB, Auxmoney, KfW ... and more

Big Society Capital invests in £25m UK diversity fund

Basel Committee to publish final climate risk principles

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) will publish its final set of climate-related financial risk principles for regulators in the "coming weeks" following its consultation.

ISSB set to go further than TCFD, vice-chair says

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is looking to create more comprehensive standards on disclosures than those set by the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the ISSB's vice-chair has said.

Impax assets take hit in stormy start to 2022

Impax's remarkable run of assets growth has stalled as inflation and concerns about fallout from the Ukraine war hit listed equity markets and dented the asset manager's financial performance in recent months.

Vanguard net-zero pledge is least ambitious in latest NZAMI report

NGFS work moves 'from awareness to action' as network grows

The Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) has launched its new two-year work programme,...