Impact investing: LP perspectives
Sofia Karadima investigates the increasing appetite for impact investing by speaking to three European LPs about how they define impact, their favoured measurement metrics, and the kinds of managers they look for
Sofia Karadima investigates the increasing appetite for impact investing by speaking to three European LPs about how they define impact, their favoured measurement metrics, and the kinds of managers they look for
This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress European sovereigns have made in their funding programmes in early June.
Greece and Ireland are set to test the primary bond market this week, returning to one buoyed by a fresh injection of confidence after the European Central Bank expanded its Pndemic Emergency Purchase Programme (Pepp)
Spain and SNCF SA announced new euro benchmarks with 20 year maturities on Monday, following the European Investment Bank’s record-breaking effort in the tenor last Friday.
European Union member states have begun applying for loans from the bloc’s €100bn Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) package. Unlike with other European rescue lending facilities, countries seem less concerned with
Vitruvian Partners has bought European digital signature and identity solutions business Scrive.
Cyprus will return to the market with a pair of taps on Tuesday, hitting screens alongside the European Financial Stability Facility’s new five year line, providing an excellent opportunity to compare Cyprus’s cost of funds
Francisco Partners has held a final closing of three funds, two equity funds and one credit fund, with an aggregate $10 billion of capital. The three new funds are Francisco Partners VI LP with $7.45
Posted by Markus Biesinger (EBRD), Çağatay Bircan (EBRD), and Alexander Ljungqvist (Stockholm School of Economics), on Friday, June 5, 2020 Editor's Note: Markus Biesinger is Associate, Private Equity at the European Bank for Reconstruction and
KKR has raised $4 billion in new capital to invest in credit opportunities created by the recent market volatility. The new capital includes $2.8 billion through its KKR Dislocation Opportunities Fund LP and just over
Steven Maijoor, chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority, has said EU legislation covering green bond reviewers would help ensure the legitimacy of the proposed Green Bond Standard.
The European Union’s formation of its Platform on Sustainable Finance last week marks a new phase in responsible investing. Over the past four years or so, the most influential thinkers in the market, such as
The European Union’s formation of its Platform on Sustainable Finance last week marks a new phase in responsible investing. Over the past four years or so, the most influential thinkers in the market, such as
Friday’s confirmation that the Issa brothers, backed by TDR Capital, had won the auction for UK supermarket Asda, catapulted them into the super league of borrowers in European leveraged credit — the handful of entrepreneurs
Slovakia will not be making use of the European Stability Mechanism’s pandemic crisis support lines, because of concerns that investors would look negatively on the decision.
The Council of Europe Development Bank has recruited a new member to its funding team with an appointment from fellow supranational borrower, the European Stability Mechanism.
The European Union’s Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities, the cornerstone of its action on sustainable finance, looks set to bless several technologies such as biofuels and hydroelectric power that are not just environmentally questionable but
The European Central Bank delivered a welcome — and bigger than expected — increase to both the size and scale of its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (Pepp) on Thursday, causing eurozone periphery spreads to ratchet
The interest cost savings may not be enough to entice some countries to accept the European Stability Mechanism’s pandemic crisis loans, with Portuguese and Cypriot officials expressing doubt.
Competition among public sector borrowers will be more ferocious than ever when 2021 begins, due to supersized borrowing programmes created to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the European Union’s arrival as big issuer and a
