Raymond Frenken

The European Commission on Thursday unveiled sweeping changes to Europe’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

The United States’ pullback from COP30 raised fears of stalled momentum in climate finance. Instead, the summit in Belém, Brazil, this week signaled a shift in how governments and financial institutions approach nature as a core pillar of climate policy.

Stretched valuations alone are not enough to derail the equity market as long as the economic backdrop remains stable, says Johanna Kyrklund, group CIO at Schroders.

A good fifteen years after the global financial crisis rewired the world’s credit circuits, a new generation of credit masters now sits in the driver’s seat of corporate finance.

Anna Rosenberg of Amundi Investment Institute says the same forces that once drove nuclear and space spending now fuel an expensive, open-ended struggle for technological supremacy.

Across Europe, asset managers are learning that selling Eltif funds to retail and wholesale investors is far harder than early optimism suggested.

Almost half of European fund investors’ costs go to distribution, according to a new report by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

EFAMA’s Tanguy van de Werve says securitisation can help reconnect investors with the real economy, if Brussels can manage to deliver clarity, proportionate rules, and trust.

Two major European cross-border asset management relationships are losing momentum, with Italian financial groups reassessing their reliance on French partners.

DWS is stepping up its ambitions in private credit, focusing on asset-based finance — lending and investment strategies secured by collateral such as real estate, infrastructure or receivables. The Frankfurt-based assetmanager is building a specialised platform to capture what it sees as the next phase of growth in Europe’s alternative investment market.