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Jefferies raises its profile in French market

October 27, 2023

As part of its European expansion plans, the US investment bank is building momentum in France, as the recent Verkor mandate demonstrates. 

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Financial services failing disabled consumers

October 24, 2023

Disability can make it hard to access vital financial services. But technology, when employed correctly, can help lower the barrier.

Kasper Kiim Jensen

Ørsted powers the green revolution through blue financing

October 23, 2023

The Danish renewable energy giant became the first energy company to pursue a new type of financing — a blue bond. 

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Europe risks being left behind on T+1

October 20, 2023

Moving the bloc to a T+1 settlement system was a topic of keen debate on the first day of this year’s AFME conference.

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Société Générale expands Italian offering with Spectrum Markets partnership

October 16, 2023

Société Générale has grown its service offering in Italy by expanding its agreement with Spectrum Markets, which allows the bank to list its products on the platform. 

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Maximising team effectiveness: your untapped competitive advantage

October 4, 2023

A guide to understanding and alleviating the ‘dark side’ behaviours of teams in the finance industry.

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Sustainable Banking Revenues Ranking 2023

October 2, 2023

For the second year in a row, Vancity has topped the annual Sustainable Banking Revenues league table, which looks at how much of banks’ overall revenue is being generated from sustainable lending, investments and underwriting. 

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Kelly Mellecker, Jordan McCallum, Jeff Warren, Siddharth Shrivastava, Katrina Niehaus

Goldman Sachs hot on communications securitisations

September 28, 2023

Taking a flexible approach to capital raising allowed the leveraged finance team to create asset-backed securities based on fibre-to-the-home infrastructure to support the big telecom providers.

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Trade finance gap grows to record levels

September 28, 2023

Rising interest rates, dwindling economic prospects, high inflation and geopolitical instability have drastically reduced banks’ capacity to deliver trade financing. What will close the gap?

Jorge Familiar

Another World Bank first: an emission reduction-linked bond

September 26, 2023

The multilateral development bank continues to be an innovator in the capital markets with a new sustainable development instrument. 

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