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Impact banking app Novus goes live

After $5 million USD of investment, Novus, the impact banking app, has officially launched to the UK public.

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LuxSE and Bolsa de Valores de Cabo Verde sign MoU on sustainable finance

In a hybrid signing ceremony, held jointly in Luxembourg and Cabo Verde, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) and Bolsa de Valores de Cabo Verde (CVSE), today announced that the two exchanges have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), in the presence of Cabo Verde’s State Secretary for Business Development Adalgisa Vaz, Cabo Verde Ambassador to Luxembourg Carlos Fernandes Semedo, Chargé d’Affaires of Luxembourg in Cabo Verde Thomas Barbancey and the Head of UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF joint office Steven Ursino, as well as the two institutions’ senior leadership teams.

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Citi to utilise climate stress test kit from S&P and Olver Wyman

Citi, S&P Global Market Intelligence and Oliver Wyman today announced that Citi has selected the S&P Global/Oliver Wyman’s Climate Credit Analytics (‘CCA’) Transition Risk model to support a variety of requirements for the bank in 2022.

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Standard Bank helps clients source alternative means of energy production with PowerPulse

Standard Bank Group is powering real impact with its latest offering: PowerPulse, an innovative digital platform designed and built to transform the way we produce, deliver and consume energy in South Africa, and in time, across the African continent.

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BME runs blockchain-based carbon offestting PoC

BME, through Iberclear, and ClimateTrade, have developed a Voluntary Registry for carbon and biodiversity inventories that allows companies to offset their carbon footprint.

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EQS expands strategic focus and becomes ESG tech provider

EQS Group AG (ISIN: DE0005494165) expands its strategic focus to include solutions in the area of sustainability and become an ESG technology provider.

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Barclays signs 10-year Power Purchase Agreement for UK operations with bp

In support of the bank’s efforts to transition towards powering its UK operations from fully renewable sources and help finance the clean energy transition, Barclays has today announced that it has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement with bp.

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EBF and UNEP FI outline practical approaches to applying EU Taxonomy to bank lending

The European Banking Federation, together with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), have today launched a report, “Practical approaches to applying the EU Taxonomy to bank lending”, that explores practical approaches for banks who wish to use the EU Taxonomy.

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ESG commitment increasingly important to retail investors

Wealth advisers face losing clients over a perceived lack of focus and commitment on ESG investing, new research from behavioural finance experts Oxford Risk shows (please see the attached press release).

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AXA, BofA join Ocean finance initiative

The development of a new global finance ecosystem designed to channel hundreds of millions of dollars into coastal and ocean natural capital by 2030 is underway, it was announced today at the One Ocean Summit hosted by France.

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Retailers terminate contracts worth over £7bn as part of supply chain clean-up

UK retailers have cancelled £7.1bn in contracts across the last 12 months with suppliers that don’t meet stringent ethical and sustainable standards, new research¹ reveals.

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Transcend integrates ESG criteria into collateral decisions and analytics

Transcend, a leading provider of analytics, optimization, and automation for collateral, liquidity, and funding, has announced the ability to seamlessly integrate ESG criteria into collateral decisions and analytics.