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China’s 2025 Investment Banking Fees Rebound: Trends in M&A, ECM & DCM

Asia Markets Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

China’s 2025 investment-banking fees rebounde...

Debt capital markets dominated with roughly U...

China-involved M&A rose about 63% to US$474bn...

Cross-border activity stayed subdued, with in...

Revolut’s €1B Bet on Paris: Banking Licence, HQ Shift & Regulatory Strategy Explained

Europe Firms Depository Credit Intermediation

Revolut will open a Western Europe headquarte...

It plans to invest over €1 billion in France ...

Revolut will apply for a French banking licen...

The move reflects France’s rapid customer gro...

EBRD’s GET 2021-25: Bold Green Finance Targets, Fossil Fuel Risks & Paris Alignment

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

EBRDs Green Economy Transition (GET 2021-25) ...

Since January 2023, all new EBRD investments ...

In 2024, EBRD committed 2.7bn in green financ...

Scrutiny remains over fossil-fuel exceptions ...

Credit Agricole to Pay €88.25M in Landmark Cum-Cum Dividend Tax Settlement

Europe Risk Depository Credit Intermediation

Credit Agricole CIB agreed to an €88.25 milli...

The payment includes €49.03 million in disgor...

Investigators said the trades generated under...

The deal is the first major resolution in Fra...

Closing the Gaps: Scaling Climate & Adaptation Finance under the Paris Agreement

Global Policy Public Administration

The Paris Agreement is the right framework, b...

Clean energy investment exceeded US$2T in 202...

Adaptation finance is rising but remains an o...

Climate finance commitments are off-track, wi...

How EU Banking Is Shifting After Brexit: Paris Emerges as Regulatory & Headcount Powerhouse

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Since Brexit, the top five Wall Street banks ...

ECB scrutiny has pushed banks to avoid “empty...

Paris has become the main EU markets hub, dra...

New rules such as CRD 6 from 2027 will furthe...

Boutique Banks Gain Stake in French M&A Fees While Lazard and Rothschild Still Lead

Europe M&A Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

U.S. advisory boutiques have lifted their sha...

Paris remains dominated by Lazard and Rothsch...

French M&A is becoming more top-heavy: 2024 d...

The boutiques’ selective, high-fee strategy c...

Tietoevry Banking Joins Norway’s NCE Finance Innovation Cluster to Boost Fintech SaaS

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Tietoevry Banking has joined Norways NCE Fina...

The partnership leverages Tietoevrys scale as...

NCE Finance Innovation, now a NIC Impact Clus...

Impact will hinge on converting membership in...

NIB Issues €750M Dark-Green Bond Under Revised EU-Taxonomy Framework

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

In September 2024, Nordic Investment Bank iss...

The revised framework broadened eligible cate...

S&P Global Ratings gave the framework a “Dark...

The bond drew a €1.2bn orderbook and supports...

Norway’s NBIM Cuts BP Stake by 25% amid Energy-Transition & ESG Pressures

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund (NBIM) cut its...

At BP’s roughly US$91 billion market cap, the...

BP shares fell about 3.16% after the disclosu...

Neither NBIM nor BP gave a reason, but the mo...