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Basel 'faulty'
20 March 2024US banks have urged the Basel Committee to re-draw 'flawed' climate disclosure rules, writes Michael Hurley
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Investment groups urge EU to delay changes to SFDR
07 February 2024European investment groups have urged the European Commission to delay proposed changes to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), as they warned of a risk to investor confidence in the regime and to the reliability of disclosures.
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EU banks 'want better short-term climate scenarios', report finds
22 June 2023Banks that underwent a climate stress test by the EU's regulator have called more robust scenarios to be used in future exercises.
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Pleas for EU to delay taxonomy reporting or risk poor disclosures
05 May 2023Investors and businesses have asked the EU Commission to delay taxonomy reporting requirements for eligible activities against the four new objectives.
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Banks call on EU to provide transition plan guidelines
05 May 2023Banks have called on the EU to catch-up with other jurisdictions - in particular, the UK and Japan - by providing guidance on transition plans and finance.
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EU green bond standard mired in broader market discussions
23 January 2023Attempts to finalise a standard have been bogged down in talks about whether the labelled bond market also needs minimum requirements - but there is hope of resolution. Ahren Lester reports
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AFME: Investor earnings expectations slowing natural capital financing
02 December 2022Investor expectations around earnings pose a key challenge to increasing natural capital financing, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has said.
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Shrinking sovereign greenium 'can no longer be taken for granted'
26 August 2022Worsening market liquidity is shrinking the size of the 'greenium' for sovereign, sub-sovereign, supranational and agency (SSA) green bond issuers...
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Sustainable bonds take record market share
24 August 2022Sovereign green bond issuance helped labelled debt secure a record share of the European bond market in the second quarter, Ahren Lester writes
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Rise of SLBs helps labelled debt retain 19% share of European market
22 August 202219% of total European bond issuance in the first half of 2022 were sustainable bonds despite a decline for social and securitised bonds, whilst sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) grew to secure more than 2% market share.
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