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CT responsible strategy sells down CrowdStrike following 'embarrassing' outage
23 July 2024Columbia Threadneedle's Responsible Global Equity Strategy trimmed its position in CrowdStrike following the "bluescreen of death" debacle last week but said the investment case has not been eradicated.
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SLLP consider formalising 'sleeping SLL' guardrails
23 July 2024The Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles (SLLP) are preparing to formalise treatment of so-called 'sleeping SLLs' in its upcoming revision, including formalising "guardrails" to ensure these contested but "useful tools" are credible.
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Australia urged to integrate biodiversity into taxonomy
23 July 2024The Australian government has been urged to integrate the Global Biodiversity Framework's (GBF) targets into its planned sustainable finance taxonomy.
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Oil and gas called on to fund tropical forest protection in new mechanism
23 July 2024Resource-intensive sectors have been called upon to fund the protection of tropical forests in the Amazon, Congo region and southeast Asia within a newly designed payment mechanism.
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'Probably the most beautiful bond we have ever seen'
23 July 2024The Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII) has argued that sovereign issuers should develop a sustainability-linked bond (SLB) in twin-bond format, arguing this would "probably be the most beautiful bond we have ever seen".
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EU banks have already reduced climate risk in response to supervision, say ECB researchers
23 July 2024The European Central Bank (ECB)'s climate-related supervision has already led to an improvement in banks' risk exposure and management, and increased capital allocation towards green finance, according to researchers at the central bank.
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NatWest: Investors 'increasingly' asking for blue and nature bond deals
22 July 2024Investors are increasingly asking NatWest to specifically bring nature-focused and 'blue' bond deals to market, but despite being "meaningful" themes in the sustainable bond market they are still not effectively being pointed out.
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EU GBS: 58% of sustainable bond frameworks since 2023 meet standard
22 July 2024Nearly three-fifths of the green and sustainability bond frameworks published since the start of 2023 'could claim alignment' with the rigorous requirements under the EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS), according to MainStreet Partners.
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Asset manager neglect of climate adaptation leads Brunel to take engagement 'into own hands'
22 July 2024UK pension pool Brunel has begun an engagement programme with 20 companies in the consumer staples sector asking them to prioritise investment in climate adaptation measures, as it said asset managers were failing to do so.
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Rakbank raises $600m from 'milestone' social bond debut
22 July 2024United Arab Emirates (UAE) lender Rakbank has raised $600 million from its debut social bond, which is the first public social bond issued in the Middle East.
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