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Europe

IBM and Coop to Use Blockchain Technology for Monitoring Food Supply...

Coop and IBM began their partnership one year ago and announced the result of their alliance today with the introduction of “Call of Ideas”....

RBS ‘Social Bond’ to Tackle Inequality

The Royal Bank of Scotland has hailed the issue of its inaugural social bond, the first of its kind by a UK financial institution. The bank said...

WorldPensionSummit Speakers Map Out Ways to Bolster Sustainable Investing

European pension fund executives say they are less concerned about the prospect of another global recession and more focused on identifying companies that have...

CLO Managers Under Pressure to Ramp up Efforts on ESG Investing

A number of investors in CLOs are holding talks with CLO managers over how environmental, social and governance issues factor into their leveraged loan...

Islamic Finance: Developing New Financial Hubs

Financial centres outside the traditional Islamic banking heartlands of the Gulf and Malaysia are eager to attract the rapidly growing industry, but so far...

Green Bonds Issuance Goes Through the Roof

The world seems to have been bitten by the ‘green bond bug’. It was only in June that global green bond issuance reached a...