News BlackRock Agrees to Acquire Global Infrastructure Partners (“GIP”), Creating a World Leading Infrastructure Private Markets Investment Platform
GIP is the world’s largest independent infrastructure manager with over $100 billion in AUM and a strong reputation for driving operational improvements in its portfolio companies & proprietary origination
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News Agence France Trésor announced the successful launch of the first French sovereign green bond
Today, Agence France Trésor announced the successful launch of the first French sovereign green bond with a maturity of 22 years. The Green OAT 1.75% 25 June 2039 issuance amount was €7bn, making it the largest and longest-dated green bond ever (...)
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News Julius Baer to acquire Merrill Lynch’s International Wealth Management business outside the United States from Bank of America
BofAML will provide certain products and services to Julius Baer, including the provision of global equity research, product offerings, as well as structured and advisory products. In addition there will be cross-referral of clients between both (...)
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News Credit Strategy : Follow The Flow: No flows...no bull market
BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research highlights the importance of the peripheral trade (BTPs vs. Bunds) for the health of the credit market. Should peripheral spreads fail to rebound, BofA Merrill Lynch think that flows into credit will struggle going forward and so will (...)
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News Antalis International lists on Euronext Paris
Euronext today welcomed Antalis International, the European leader distributor of Papers, Packaging products, and Visual Communication materials, to compartment B of Euronext’s regulated market in Paris.
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News SUEZ successfully launches a 500 million euros green bond issuance
With a 5.5 times oversubscription and an order book totalling 2.7 billion euros, this issuance has been a huge success. More than 200 investors have once again shown their confidence in SUEZ: the very strong demand allowed to tighten the credit margin by 40 bps compared with (...)
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News Amaranth and its prominent trader Brian Hunter prosecuted
The CTFC lodged a complaint against the Amaranth hedge fund and its former prominent trader Brian Hunter for attempting to manipulate prices on the natural gas futures market...
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News Avantium celebrates its listing on Euronext Amsterdam and Brussels
Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Brussel today welcomed Avantium, a leading chemical technology company and forerunner in renewable chemistry. The listing follows the company’s successful Initial Public Offering (IPO), with a total offering of € 125.8 million Including maximum (...)
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News CSOP issues first thematic equity product with new Cloud Computing ETF, tracking Solactive Global Cloud Computing Technology Index
Saving valuable data online, sharing files with friends, and switching devices seamlessly have one thing in common: all of these processes utilize the power of cloud computing as the technical foundation of its services. Valued at USD 266.0 billion in 2019, the cloud (...)
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News Natixis supports the measures announced by H2O Asset Management and confirms the principles of its multiaffiliates model
Following the information released on 20th June 2019 by Natixis and H2O Asset Management and the statements of H2O Asset Management made earlier today, Natixis today provides the following additional information.
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News S&P Capital IQ and SNL finds that risk exposure exceeds 75% of world gross domestic product at global systematically important banks (G-SIBs)
Research shows concentrated financial risk as the world’s 30 G-SIBs have $59.759 trillion in exposures; the top 20 banks account for 83% of that total
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News Fitch: North America Sovereign Outlook Stable as Growth, Government Debt Ratios Steady
Fitch Ratings expects economic growth in North America to improve in 2016. The U.S. economy will grow 2.5%, the same rate as in 2015, while Canadian growth will improve to 2% in 2016 from just 1% in 2015. Growth in both the (...)
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News CNP Assurances : Successful €500m Tier 3 notes issue
CNP Assurances has successfully placed €500 million worth of notes due 8 March 2028 and paying interest at 0.375%. The notes qualify as Tier 3 capital under Solvency II. Its cost is the lowest ever paid for hybrid capital by a financial institution in (...)
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News Muzinich & Co announces first close of European Senior Secured Private Debt Fund
The Fund focuses on providing growth financing solutions for European middle-market companies and explicitly incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations and monitoring into the investment (...)
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News Norway’s sovereign wealth fund returned -0.9 percent, or -73 billion kroner, in the second quarter of 2015.
Equity investments returned -0.2 percent, and fixed-income investments -2.2 percent. The return on these investments was 0.4 percentage point higher than the return on the benchmark indices. Investments in real estate returned 2.0 (...)
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