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 SUEZ successfully priced an inaugural £600 million Green Bond issuance
Following its first two bond issuances denominated in euro in May 2022 and October 2022, SUEZ successfully priced a 20-year inaugural sterling Green Bond, yesterday.
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News Sfil Group’s 1st issue in US dollar of the year
With this transaction on a 5-year maturity, Sfil extends its dollar reference curve by a further 2 years and contributes to diversifying its medium- to long-term financing sources after 2 euro transactions launched during the 1st half at 5 and 7 (...)
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News CalPERS Receives Citigroup Settlement Payment Totaling $88 Million
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has $88 million more in its investment portfolio thanks to a payment received this week from the California Attorney General’s Office as part of a global settlement reached by the US Department of Justice, FDIC, and (...)
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News According to Goldman Sachs, 5 European banks could fail the EBA tests
In a research note that was published on Friday, the American bank estimated 50 European banks out of 91 could fail the new tests prepared by the European Banking Authority (EBE)…
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News Trading, Crisis and Stress Management
The recent financial crises have increased the level of stress among traders. Beyond the investment performances, the layoffs and a strong deterioration in the image of their activity continue to negatively impact them psychologically. We analyse the current state of stress (...)
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News CNP Assurances adopts a definitive plan to exit thermal coal by 2030 in European Union and OECD countries, and by 2040 in the rest of the world
A year to the day following the Paris financial marketplace declaration for green and sustainable finance, CNP Assurances has adopted a definitive thermal coal exit plan : through this, it is committed to achieving zero exposure to thermal coal in its investment portfolio by (...)
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News Robeco BP Global Premium Equities wins record ninth Morningstar award
Robeco, a leading international asset manager based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is pleased to announce that Morningstar has named Robeco Boston Partners Global Premium Equities fund as the best of its class in a record nine European (...)
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News First crowdfunded security to be traded on a secondary market in Europe
Today, the first buy and sell orders of a crowdfunded security were placed on the Euronext Expert Market (Public Auction), an electronic trading platform for non-listed securities. These orders will lead to the first secondary transaction in a crowdfunding instrument on a (...)
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News Fitch Ratings : European banks back commodity traders amid liquidity crunch
European banks appear to be increasing lending to commodity trading firms, which are facing unprecedented liquidity needs due to extreme commodity price volatility, Fitch Ratings says.
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News Norges Bank has decided to revoke the exclusion of one company, and end observation of a company.
The Executive Board of Norges Bank has decided to revoke the exclusion of Thoresen Thai Agencies PCL. The company has been excluded since 2018 due to its practice of sending decommissioned vessels to be broken up for scrap in Bangladesh, where working conditions are (...)
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News SGSS et Oddo Services mandated by Convictions AM
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) and Oddo Services have been mandated by Convictions Asset Management to provide custody account-keeping services for the launch of its new discretionary management activity.
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News Leading megatrend tech ETF says Tesla remains undervalued
Anthony Ginsberg, Co-creator of the HAN-GINS Tech Megatrend Equal Weight UCITS ETF (ITEK), says despite the recent meteoric rise in the share price of Tesla, the company is undervalued.
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News ING announces exercise of underwriters’ option to acquire additional shares in ING U.S.
ING announced today that the underwriters in the offering of shares of ING U.S. Inc., its U.S.-based retirement, investment and insurance subsidiary, have exercised their option to purchase an additional 4.95 million shares of ING U.S. from ING Group at the offering price of (...)
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