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LATEST ARTICLES
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Why it doesn’t make sense that economic theory has kept natural capital as an externality.
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SoftBank and its roughly $100 billion Vision Fund face growing questions about their use of leverage and the size of stakes built in technology-related companies.
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The fiasco of the failed IPO of WeWork has embroiled some of the most prominent figures in global finance, including SoftBank chairman Masayoshi Son and JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon.
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VTB has long lagged state-owned rival Sberbank in terms of profitability, but with sanctions limiting access to capital the pressure is on to close the gap – chairman Andrey Kostin explains why digital transformation and aggressive retail growth hold the key to success for Russia’s second-largest lender.
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While transaction banking is one of the most innovative areas of finance, there is competition from big tech - and gaining market share is tough in a fragmented industry. How can banks stay on top?
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Driven by changes in technology and many new entrants to the business, transaction banking is no longer a boring, old, but stable revenue earner, chugging along in the background. Instead, trade finance and cash management are becoming an exciting and critical area of banking.
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The EMEA treasury director at CBRE says: 'Treasury can be truly transformed by introducing technology.'
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The bank's head of treasury and trade solutions, EMEA, says: 'In transaction banking, we see exponential growth.'
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The bank's group head, global transaction banking says: 'We want to open up the transaction banking landscape.'
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The head of transaction banking at SEB says: 'Corporate clients ask us what we are doing to become a green bank.'
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The global head of transaction banking at StanChart says: 'We will see better results if we work together.'
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The bank's global head of core trade products says: 'Once you start digitizing trade finance, everything starts to move faster.'
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The bank's global head of liquidity and cash management says: 'We need to stay on top of emerging trends.'
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The head of channels, analytics and innovation for treasury services and head of blockchain initiatives for corporate and investment banking at JPMorgan says: 'The boundaries between technological innovation and product development are blurring.'
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The former treasurer at the Chinese multinational technology company says: 'Banks should be concerned.'
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The bank's managing director of commercialisation and propositions for global transaction banking says: 'Why shouldn’t banking be just as simple as booking a hotel or ordering a taxi?'
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Tiny Bhutan has a claim to fame as the first and only country that can claim to be not only carbon neutral but dramatically carbon negative. Conservation is wrapped in with the national ideal of ‘gross national happiness’, a pillar of the country’s constitution and fundamental to national planning.
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Using a model of up-front financing for large one-off projects, project finance for permanence may be the mechanism that can help reach the goal of 50% of the planet’s natural areas being protected in perpetuity.
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The Latin American nation has gone all-out to rebuild its natural environment over the last three decades, with great results – now it needs the rest of the world to pay attention.
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The Seychelles was the first country to issue a debt-for-nature swap to protect its marine environment; it was also the first to issue a blue bond, raising capital to finance sustainable marine and ocean-related projects. But can it overcome the teething problems and provide a model other island nations can follow?
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Deforestation – and the cattle farming that largely drives it – has caught the world’s attention. While some environmentalists suggest punitive measures to make Brazil a better steward of the forest, there are already more constructive, private-sector responses to the challenge. Can they scale quickly enough to save the Amazon?
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The rhino impact bond has sparked excitement that financial tools can play a role in helping Africa conserve its wildlife. As the continent’s population level is set to rise quickly, Euromoney looks at the work being done to connect conservation with economic growth.
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Carbon markets, particularly offsets, are shaking off their past and becoming a vital instrument for reaching CO2 reduction goals, protecting and conserving biodiversity at scale, as well as meeting many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. They need to succeed.
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To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean up water supplies, prevent the loss of biodiversity, mitigate fire and flood risk and meet the nutritional requirements of a growing population the world must improve its regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices – new tools and support from the financial services industry are needed to fund that transition.
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Advocating ESG while investing in one of the world’s largest oil companies is an uneasy truth.
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It was just what the regulators didn’t want: another surge in Sofr just as the timetable for transition away from US dollar Libor enters its critical phase.
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The race is on: not Formula 1 but environmental challenges.
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Deutsche Bank has taken the radical step of getting rid of its equities business, but thinks it can still offer ECM. Can it?
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Former banker Alexander Lebedev has some sage advice for would-be oligarchs.
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Investors fearful of higher geopolitical risk and lower economic growth may be making a mistake if they consider private assets as the best way to generate returns.
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It might not happen, but if the US president were to stop Asian firms listing in the US, it would help a sector that has watched business slip through its fingers.
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The company is expanding its UK-tested platform through an agreement with Euronext to bring the retail bid into follow-on offers from listed SMEs across Europe.
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Despite being a global leader in IT and semiconductors, Taiwan has long been a digital laggard. The regulator has just issued the island’s first digital banking licences, but is it a simple case of ‘too late’ rather than ‘better late than never’?
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It is less than two and a half years until Libor, the benchmark on which trillions of dollars-worth of financial instruments are based, will disappear. That is a hopelessly ambitious timetable in which to complete what has been called the largest financial engineering project in history. Even if chaos is averted, the way in which banks lend, and indeed how corporates borrow, may never be the same again.
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A move from Jakarta to the island of Borneo might not be all that it seems.