As the financial industry continues to call for more clarity and guidance to handle what even supervisors see as the "astonishing" complexity of the emerging EU framework for sustainable finance, impact investments and ESG, European regulators have added …

The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform, known as SDI AOP, offers the opportunity to standardise SDG impact measurement and develop a broad benchmark for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “The platform can become a global …

The World Bank on Tuesday warned that the global economy is facing a 1970s-style stagflation with a protracted period of feeble growth and elevated inflation. “For many countries, recession will be hard to avoid,” World Bank President David Malpass said …

Luxembourg Finance Minister Yuriko Backes is visiting London this week, at a time when advocates of maintaining strong UK-EU financial services relationships are struggling to have their voices heard. The Luxembourg government has sought to take the heat …

Financing expensive new infrastructure projects is a challenge for countries around the world. An American early-stage fintech named Pontoro recently pitched in Luxembourg its development of an innovative new digital assets platform that makes these …

When it comes to equity valuations, most investors are concerned with the price/earnings ratio. And while that P/E ratio has fallen to just below the average of the past decade, the picture painted by another valuation measure is much less attractive. The …

European financial market regulator Esma has reminded fund managers of their fiduciary duties to correctly account for the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on investment funds. Esma recently published a note to in which it “recognises first and …

Sustainable finance poses a compliance risk you can no longer afford to ignore, no matter whether you are green or brown. Offering green investment products without actually doing so can get you into serious trouble. Asoka Woehrmann, the chief executive …

Chinese bonds have defied the general negative trend in bond and credit markets this year until recently, but ended May with heavy losses. Three Chinese bond markets The universe of Chinese fixed income securities essentially consists of three markets. …

Unregulated alternative investments continued to be dynamic and successful in Luxembourg last year thanks to the modernisation in recent years of the Grand Duchy’s regulatory regime for private markets, consultancy firm PWC Luxembourg noted when releasing …

EU regulators add details to sustainable finance rules

BlackRock’s clients ask for portfolios in line with SDGs

World Bank warns of 1970s-style stagflation

Yuriko Backes: EU & Brexit translator

Tokenisation can bridge funding gap for infrastructure

Chart of the week: this valuation gets in the way

Esma reminds funds of duties on stranded Russia assets

In Flux: Fifty shades of green

Top 5: Chinese bond funds: HSBC GIF RMB in the lead

PWC: Alternatives add dynamism to ManCo market