Interest in renewables is playing into the hands of alternative investment funds. Listed closed-end impact funds continue to invest in new energy projects, and investor inflows are following suit. Yet for now it is mainly the British investors who …

The announcement that some 500 Microsoft Exchange servers “need immediate attention”, issued by Luxembourg’s cybersecurity agencies last week was echoed by financial regulator the CSSF just before last weekend. The head of Luxembourg’s agency covering the …

Schroders Capital on Wednesday said it has launched its first European Long-Term Investment Fund, or Eltif. The fund is called the Schroders Capital Private Equity Eltif 2023 and is classified as a ‘green’ Article 8 under the EU Sustainable Finance …

PwC Luxembourg has named Baptiste Guionnet as partner. Guionnet will support CEOs, CFOs and other C-level executives on all financial, performance and transformation matters of the finance function. Until recently he served as partner at Deloitte …

IntReal Luxembourg SA, a subsidiary of property-focused third-party AIF manager IntReal, has added Stephan Schilken, 48, to its management team as a managing director. He will serve in the position of conducting officer and brings to the job decades of …

The market for European long term investment funds, or Eltifs, is set to triple in the coming years as high-net-worth clients increasingly look to diversify their portfolios by increasing their exposure to private markets, according to US fund manager …

Banks across Europe and elsewhere in the world should brace themselves for having their climate policies challenged in court after French bank BNP Paribas last week became the first commercial bank to find itself confronted with a lawsuit because of its …

Luxembourg’s leading financial sector associations, together with the supervisory authorities and the government, are about to launch a public campaign that seeks to elucidate the general public in the grand duchy on sustainable finance. In particular, …

Financial services group Apex Group Ltd on Monday announced it has launched a new ESG database and benchmarking platform for private markets. Apex’s ESG data service is run as a ‘Data as a Service’, or DaaS, platform and draws on information from more …

The world’s top body to fight money laundering and financial crime on Monday warned that the international high value art and antiquities market has become vulnerable to money laundering and the financing of terrorism. It called on art dealers and …

Private impact investing remains largely a British party

Cybersecurity problems worsened by lack of qualified staff

Schroders’ first Eltif assigned Article 8 status under SFDR

Baptiste Guionnet joins PwC Luxembourg as partner

Stephan Schilken joins IntReal as managing director

BlackRock has ‘aggressive plans’ for the Eltif market

Climate lawsuit against BNP Paribas seen as first of many

Luxembourg campaign to elucidate public on ESG finance

Apex presents ESG benchmarking database for private markets

FATF warns art and antiquities market exploited by criminals