The Guardian: “BlackRock to advise EU on environmental rules for banks”

BlackRock, one of the world’s largest investors in banks and fossil fuel companies, has been hired by the EU to ...
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F2iC: Etat et actionnaires, chacun doit rester dans son rôle et faire preuve de responsabilité

Depuis quelques jours, le gouvernement parle ouvertement de nationaliser éventuellement des entreprises afin d’assurer leur pérennité. La F2iC juge cette ...
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POLITICO: EU to push green finance, rules-based trade at international talks

POLITICO reports that on 10 April EU finance ministers approved the "terms of reference" in which they pledge "to raise ...
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Employee Share Ownership (ESO) in times of Pandemic

BETTER FINANCE supports the appeal from EFES, the European Federation of Employee Share Ownership, to all European governments & institutions ...
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Funds Europe: ESMA finds retail investors still hit by costs

There is still a significant impact on investment returns for retail investors due to costs that are on average 40% ...
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Coronavirus could save Europe, or sink it.

Since its founding in the 1950s, the European club has by definition been a post-national project, or “supranational” in Brussels ...
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Banks in pandemic turmoil: Capital relief is welcome, supervisory forbearance is not.

As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread around the world and emergency confinement measures have disrupted markets, bankers on both ...
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The European Central Bank announced a €750 billion Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP)

Last Wednesday, the European Central Bank (ECB)  announced a 750 billion asset-purchase programme in response to the coronavirus outbreak, causing a ...
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Walk the talk?: Member States plead for EU Capital Markets Union but do the opposite.

There is bad news for Belgian investors as Belgium and France have reformed a new tax treaty which, according to ...
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