L'UE met en garde contre la nécessité de combler le déficit en matière d'assurance climatique

La Banque centrale européenne et le principal organisme d’assurance de l’UE ont averti que les entreprises et les ménages ne sont pas suffisamment assurés contre les catastrophes liées au climat, ce qui accroît le risque d’instabilité financière et de crises économiques.

ECB and Eiopa warn climate insurance gap must be bridged

The European Central Bank and the EU’s top insurance body have warned that businesses and households are not sufficiently insured against climate-related disasters, raising the risk of financial instability and economic crises. A discussion paper issued this week argued that catastrophe bonds should play a bigger role in bridging the overall climate insurance gap, while national and European authorities need to encourage uptake of policies to prevent such crises from occurring. 

Luxembourg’s Euro MTF bourse offers trading in Macao securities

The Luxembourg stock exchange on Tuesday said it will offer trading in Macao-listed securities on its self-regulated Euro MTF market. Close to two billion euro in Macao bonds will be dual-listed on the two exchanges. China, which controls Macao, sees the cooperation as part of its One Belt-One Road initiative.

The bourse said it has signed an agreement with representatives of Macao and China to extend its cooperation to securities listed on the Chongwa (Macao) Financial Asset Exchange Co. Ltd., a market known as MOX.

Interest margin bounty underpins BCEE banking income

The BCEE, one of Luxembourg’s main domestic banks commonly known as the Spuerkees, credited rising interest rates as playing a key role in increasing its increased banking income portion of its overall annual report for the year ending in 2022 through over 20% increase to its interest margin. According to a bank press release, this was also due to an increase in lending activities. 

Police raid AC Milan’s holding companies in Luxembourg

In a dawn raid on Friday, Luxembourg judicial authorities searched for documents of two holding companies in relation to last year’s 1.2 billion euro sale of Italian football club AC Milan to a US-based sports investment fund. The sale is still contested by a third Luxembourg holding company, Blue Skye Financial Partners, which owned a small minority stake in AC Milan.

Les organismes de financement rejettent les critiques formulées à l'encontre des fonds en faveur de la biodiversité : bientôt, tout sera kaput

Les maisons de fonds reconnaissent les critiques des banques à l’égard des fonds de biodiversité, mais dénoncent les arguments relatifs au manque de données et à l’absence de liquidité. Selon elles, il s’agit d’une excuse pour ne pas «devoir» agir.