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Greenhouse gas emission data has been around for 10 years plus, it has weaknesses, but it is fairly easy to get hold of that information. The bit that isn’t easy is the upstream and downstream emissions
Will Oulton, First Sentier Investors
Australia can be a pretty difficult market to penetrate, and it may not make sense to apply for eight or 10 different licences
In-house lawyer at a private bank
A taxonomy-compliant green asset ratio may indeed be useful to provide some level of standardisation to banks’ disclosures, but it will not be useful as a risk management tool
Karen Degouve, Natixis
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What lies beneath: Nomura’s iceberg balance sheet
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In the holding pen
US banks have been shifting securities from their trading books into hold-to-maturity portfolios to reduce the volatility of their stress capital buffer, prompting JP Morgan chief executive Jamie Dimon to ask whether this quirk of the capital rules makes any practical sense.
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EU still undecided on how to implement minimum repo haircuts
Concerns over non-bank leverage may derail push to include haircuts in bank capital rules
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Repair the leverage ratio, revive the repo market
ECB certificates: a ready-made euro safe asset
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NSFR may clear up questions about Nomura’s balance sheet
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