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World Bank Releases Guide for Sovereign Issuers to Engage with Investors on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Issues

November 9, 2020 – The World Bank today published a guide to help public debt managers improve their engagement with investors on ESG topics. Titled "Engaging with Investors on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Issues -A World Bank Guide for Sovereign Debt Managers," it helps bridge the communication gap on ESG issues between sovereign issuers and investors.

The guide outlines how sovereign debt investors use ESG information in their investment strategies, how debt managers are engaging with them, and how engagement can be improved.

Sovereign issuers, who represent 50 percent of the fixed income market by volume, are facing increasing interest on ESG issues from investors. Rating agencies and investors have long considered governance-related information while assessing sovereign risk, the macro-fiscal outlook, and debt-default risk.

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Source: World Bank


Funds cut cash holdings to pre-pandemic levels

November 8, 2020--Fund managers cut their cash stockpiles to record lows as they piled in to buoyant stock markets in the second and third quarters, prompting concerns over how they would cope with a fresh surge of investor redemptions.

Many investment funds built up cash buffers after being hit by large redemption requests when the coronavirus pandemic exploded in March. However, new research by data provider eVestment shows cash positions have sunk back to their pre-coronavirus levels.

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Source: FT.com


OECD Pension Markets in Focus 2020

November 6, 2020--Retirement savings in pension funds, pension insurance contracts and in other vehicles exceeded the USD 50 trillion mark worldwide for the first time at the end of 2019, with USD 49.2 trillion in the OECD area and USD 1.7 trillion in other reporting jurisdictions. Countries around the globe are engaged in intense pension reform efforts, often involving an increased use of funded pension programmes managed by the private sector.

There is a growing need among policy makers and the regulatory community, as well as among private sector participants, to compare programme developments and experiences to those of other countries. Because funded pension arrangements are likely to play an increasingly important role in delivering retirement income security in many countries, and because the investment of pension assets will increasingly affect securities markets in future years, the availability of an accurate, comprehensive, comparable and up-to-date body of international statistics is a necessary tool for policy makers, regulators and market participants.

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Source: OECD


Climate finance for developing countries rose to USD 78.9 billion in 2018

November 6, 2020--Climate finance provided and mobilised by developed countries for developing countries totalled USD 78.9 billion in 2018, up 11% from 71.2 billion in 2017. The increase was driven by a rise in public climate finance, while private climate finance was flat, according to new figures from the OECD.

Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries in 2013-18 is the OECD's third assessment of progress towards the UNFCCC goal of mobilising USD 100 billion per year by 2020 to help developing countries tackle and adapt to climate change. This latest report deepens the analysis of aggregate figures by providing more insights on the characteristics and recipients of climate finance over the period studied.

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view the OECD Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries in 2013-18 report

Source: OECD


4 lessons from nature to build a circular economy

November 6, 2020--The circular economy is a way of building a world with no waste.
Circular business models are a $4.5 trillion in opportunity over the next decade.
The natural world offers powerful lessons on building a circular economy. The circular economy is one of the few disruptive concepts with universal appeal-with business leaders, investors, activists, economists and environmentalists.

While gaining in populatity, the concepts of circularity have been around for centuries-from regenerative agriculture and bartering, to repair and reuse, to renewable energy and plant-based meat alternatives.

The benefits to the planet are clearer than ever: by decoupling economic growth from the use of scarce, natural resources, we can consume without exhausting our planet. The business opportunities are massive: $4.5 trillion in opportunity over the next decade. And the benefits to society - by re-coupling growth with social progress-can be found in new jobs, access to products and services, and better health.

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Source: World Economic Forum (WEF)


Regulators speed up fintech plans as Covid spreads

November 3, 2020--Regulators around the world have reacted to the spread of coronavirus by speeding up the pace of fintech rulemaking, according to new research from the World Bank and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.
As people started to access more of their financial services digitally, regulators were forced to take a fresh look at their fintech plans.

The research looked at 118 authorities in 114 different jurisdictions. Almost three-quarters of them said they had accelerated or introduced new initiatives on digital infrastructure, while 58 per cent said they had accelerated or introduced new measures to support "RegTech" and supervisory technology, or "SupTech".

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Source: technocodex.com


The Crisis is Not Over, Keep Spending (Wisely)

November 2, 2020--The pandemic-induced economic crisis is set to leave deep scars. Human capital erosion from prolonged high unemployment and school closures, value destruction from bankruptcies, and constraints on future fiscal policy from elevated public debt top the list. Groups that were already poor and vulnerable are set to see the largest setbacks.

Swift and unprecedented action by policymakers, including among the Group of Twenty (G20) advanced and emerging market economies, helped avert an even worse economic crisis in the wake of COVID-19 than what has been witnessed. The G20 has provided around US$11 trillion in necessary support to individuals, businesses, and the healthcare sector since the start of the pandemic.

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Source: IMF


FSB welcomes TCFD status report

October 29, 2020--The Financial Stability Board (FSB) welcomed the publication today of the 2020 status report by the industry-led Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), which reports on the further growth in TCFD-aligned disclosures by firms.

The TCFD was established by the FSB in 2015 to develop a set of voluntary, consistent disclosure recommendations for use by companies in providing information to investors, lenders and insurance underwriters about their climate-related financial risks.

The industry members of the TCFD, who are drawn from a wide range of industries and countries from around the globe, finalised the recommendations in 2017 after extensive public engagement and consultation. They set out the disclosures that a wide range of users and preparers of financial filings have said are essential to understanding a company's climate-related risks and opportunities.

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Source: Financial Stability Board (FSB)


BIS-What Comes Next?

November 2, 2020--Summary
Focus
The Covid recession has had profoundly uneven effects at an industry level. Although some industries have recovered quickly since the middle of the year, customer service industries could face ongoing constraints until a vaccine or effective treatment for the virus becomes widely available. The quantitative implications of these constraints for other industries and for aggregate GDP are uncertain.

Contribution
I use a multi-industry macroeconomic model to estimate the aggregate and industry-specific disturbances that explain economic activity in a number of large economies during the Covid recession. I then use the model to forecast the recovery under various assumptions about how these disturbances evolve. I model the Covid crisis as a sequence of structural changes, meaning that I account for the effects of the crisis on the steady state of these economies, as well as the dynamic relationships between economic variables.
Findings
The output of customer service industries in large advanced economies, like the United States and the euro area, could remain 10% below its pre-Covid trend until constraints on these industries ease. These economies could face a '98% economy' in the years ahead, with output returning to at best 2% below its pre-crisis trend.

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Source: BIS


BlackRock pushes for global ESG standards

October 30, 2020--BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has called for the "alphabet soup" of standards used by companies to showcase their sustainability efforts to be replaced by a globally recognised framework, warning an overhaul was vital for investors to understand the risks companies face.

Demand from asset managers for environmental, social and governance information has soared in recent years on the back of strong client interest in sustainable investing-an area of fund management that is growing rapidly.

In response, a wide array of private sector reporting frameworks and standards around sustainability have sprung up.

But the $7.8tn asset manager said these needed to be replaced with a single global framework, warning that the current "proliferation of disclosure initiatives, many of which are overlapping, has led to duplicative efforts by reporters and a lack of consistent and comparable data".

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