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News Euronext launches sixth edition of pre-IPO programme TechShare in ten European countries

The sixth edition of TechShare, Euronext’s dedicated pre-IPO programme for European Tech companies, will see participants join from ten countries across Europe. All Tech sectors are represented this year, with a strong emphasis on biotech, health tech and (...)

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News Leverage Shares Cross-lists Suite of Short & Leveraged ETPs on Euronext

Leverage Shares, the pioneer in short & leveraged ETPs on single stocks, has cross-listed 40 ETPs on Euronext Amsterdam. Its extensive range tracks individual US stocks, including the most popular names such as Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, NVIDIA and (...)

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News Alternative strategies for a democratic U.S. Congress

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News ETFGI reports assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed globally reached a new record of US$7.62 trillion at the end of November 2020

ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs and ETPs ecosystem, reported that assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed globally reached new records of US$7.62 trillion and net inflows reached a new record of US$670.57 billion (...)

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News Nascent Social Bond Fund Sector Faces Implementation Challenges

Dedicated social bond funds, such as the social bond strategy announced recently by Amundi, may face heightened single-name concentration risks as a result unless they have latitude to invest in a wider array of instruments than just social (...)

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News Solactive Announces 50 Million EUR Growth Equity Investment from Summit Partners

Solactive, a technology-enabled provider of indices and index solutions to the global financial services industry, today announced a €50 million minority investment from global growth equity firm Summit Partners. The investment will help support Solactive’s continued global (...)

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News Nomura Mezzanine Partners Completes Final Close on Japanese Mezzanine Fund

Nomura Mezzanine Partners Co., Ltd. (“N-MEZ”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced that it has completed the final close on its mezzanine fund N-MEZ Investment Business Limited Partnership 1 (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 Swiss Re to create new fund for institutional and designated professional investors to access natural catastrophe business

Swiss Re subsidiary Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Management Ltd (SRILIM) has received authorisation from FINMA to act as an asset manager for investment funds

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News Hong Kong Policy Address Emphasises Integration with China

Fitch downgraded Hong Kong’s rating to ‘AA-’, from ‘AA’, in April 2020 and revised the Outlook to Stable from Negative, following an earlier downgrade from ‘AA+’ in September 2019. The economic fallout from the pandemic and earlier anti-government protests played a (...)

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News European Union EUR 8.5 billion single tranche bond issue due 4th July, 2035

The European Union (“EU”), rated AAA/AAA/Aaa/AA/AAA by DBRS, Fitch, Moody’s, S&P and SCOPE (positive outlook for S&P, stable for the other rating agencies), today issued a €8.5 billion single tranche social bond due in July 2035. This was the third EU transaction under (...)

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News Fitch Ratings Affirms European Money Market Funds in Peer Review

Fitch Ratings recently affirmed the ratings of 61 European short-term money market funds (MMFs) at ’AAAmmf’. Rated funds are conservatively positioned, with average liquidity levels well above minimum rating and regulatory (...)

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News Think Bigger Capital launches its first fund with a target size of €30m.

Think Bigger Capital, Demium’s Asset Management Company announces its first fund (TBF I) which has a target size of €30M and focuses on investing in technology and innovation companies in Europe.

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News LafargeHolcim successfully launches first sustainability-linked bond for EUR 850 million

LafargeHolcim today priced a EUR 850 million sustainability-linked bond with a coupon of 0.5% maturing in 2031. With this first bond of its kind in the building materials industry, the company is confirming its sustainability leadership in the (...)

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News ETFGI reports ETFs and ETPs listed globally have gathered a record US$539.58 billion in year to date net inflows as of the end of October 2020

ETFGI reported today reports ETFs and ETPs listed globally have gathered a record US$539.58 billion in year to date net inflows as of the end of October 2020.

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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 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 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 Schroders launches first luxembourg ELTIF 2.0 fund in France

The asset management company, Schroder Investment Management (Europe) S.A. launched “Schroders Capital – Private Equity ELTIF 2023”, its first Luxembourg ELTIF 2.0 Private Equity fund distributed in France and internationally.

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News Solactive Launches PAB High-Yield (Y) Indices and Enlarges Paris-Aligned Index Family

Investors have been increasingly considering aligning investment decisions with ESG values. In 2021, this focus increased as the entire world watched heads of states’ debates on effective actions against climate change at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, (...)

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News Varma invests EUR 230 million in State Street’s sustainable climate bond funds

Varma invested EUR 230 million in the Sustainable Climate Corporate Bond Funds of the world’s third-largest asset manager State Street Global Advisors. The funds aim to achieve a significant reduction in investors’ exposure to carbon emissions and allocate capital to fund the (...)

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News The euro jumped by 1% this morning against the US dollar to 1.0836, while defensive assets dropped

The French OAT- German Bund yield spreads tighten by 16bps as market’s pricing in the likely outcome of Macron winning the elections as many French political leaders now support him in an effort to block the Far-right Le (...)

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News ISS Announces Acquisition of Investment Climate Data Advisory Division of South Pole Group

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”), the leading provider of end-to-end corporate governance and responsible investment solutions to the global financial community, today announced the acquisition of the investment climate data division of South Pole Group which (...)

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News Enel launches the world’s first "general purpose SDG linked bond", succesfully placing a 1.5 billion U.S. dollar bond on the U.S. market

Enel Finance International NV has placed on the capital market the world’s first bond linked to the achievement of a sustainable objective, part of the Group’s corporate strategy and in line with Enel’s commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”) of the (...)

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News ETFGI reports Crypto ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$785 million during March 2022

ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs/ETPs ecosystem, reported today that Crypto ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$785 million during March, bringing Q1 net inflows to US$859 million, which is (...)

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News CalPERS Announces $500 Million Infrastructure Partnership with UBS

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today announced a new $500 million global infrastructure partnership with UBS Global Asset Management (UBS). CalPERS will contribute $485 million to the newly formed company, while UBS will contribute $15 million (...)

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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 Five Of The Top Ten Largest Banks In The World Are From China - Largest Bank With Almost $5T In Total Assets

China’s banking system can trace its roots back all the way back to the tenth century Song dynasty.

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News Luxcara has acquired the solar project Guillena-Salteras located in southern Spain.

The plant will have a projected capacity of approximately 121 MWp. Construction works will begin shortly. The facility is expected to be connected to the grid in Q2/2020. Like project El Salobral, which Luxcara acquired in December 2017, Guillena-Salteras will sell the (...)

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News Infravia IV hits its hard cap in closing at Eur 2bn

InfraVia announces the completion of the acquisition of Mater Private hospital group on 31st July 2018 following receipt of the necessary regulatory approvals. Mater Private is the first investment of InfraVia’s fourth infrastructure (...)

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