Cornerstone Research Experts in Focus: Andrea Eisfeldt
Spending New York’s $4.2 Billion Environmental Bond Funds
Podcast: Credit Funds: Credit Default Swaps in the Distressed Limelight
[WEBINAR] Developing FEMA Compliant Procurement Procedures
2017 West Virginia Legislative Update For Employers
How Leading Philippine Companies are Using Bonds to Their Advantage
Can I collect my judgment if the other side is appealing?
Bill on Bankruptcy: US Airways Need a Merger More than AMR
Bill on Bankruptcy: Why is Kodak's Stock Soaring?
Bill on Bankruptcy: How Purchasers of AMR Stock Made a Killing
Bill on Bankruptcy: Rakoff Reverses Himself in Madoff Case
Bill on Bankruptcy: MF Global Creditors Undeterred by Low Value
Bill on Bankruptcy: Will 2013 Be Kind To The Bankruptcy Bar?
Bill on Bankruptcy: Big Surprises For AMR, MF Global Creditors
Recently, Fitch Ratings issued a discussion paper that outlined a “contemplated framework for the analysis of physical climate risk for [Structured Finance] and [Covered Bonds] for the potential negative implications of...more
In the November 2024 election, California voters approved Proposition 4 – the Climate Bond, authorizing the state to issue $10 billion in general obligation bonds to fund climate resilience and environmental conservation...more
Sustainability-linked bonds (“SLBs”) have fast become an important feature of the sustainable finance market. According to Climate Bonds Initiative, SLB issuance reached US$76.3 billion in 2022 and we have seen an...more
Climate factors' impact on a debtor's ability to honor its obligations has been recognized for over 4,000 years. It was the Code of Hammurabi in Mesopotamia that first mandated a deferral of principal repayment and...more
The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...more
GSS bonds and other forms of sustainable finance have become a mainstream feature of Latin American debt capital markets - Sustainability issues in Latin America have long been closely linked to finance, but never more so...more
EU and British authorities unveiled new proposals this week to “crimp the power of ‘gatekeeper’ platforms like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, which policymakers argue deserve more oversight given their outsize...more
As a coastal region confronting the impacts of climate change, South Florida must continue to advance urban resiliency and sustainability innovations through public investments, regulations, and private sector incentives that...more
In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted 17 sustainable development goals to be achieved by 2030 ("SDGs"). The SDGs include ending poverty and hunger, promoting gender equality, tackling climate change and...more
..The EY Center for Board Matters’ 2019 Proxy Season Review report revealed gender diversity and sustainability were among the main governance concerns. ..The $50 million Rhino Impact Bonds (RIB), the first financial...more
New international guidelines on environmental sustainability adopted from green bonds allow lenders and borrowers to designate “green loans" - More than US $150 billion in “green bonds”—bonds that fund projects that...more
Here’s the other shoe for that news that all the big banks passed their Fed stress tests the other day: are the “bad old days of enormous leverage and freewheeling deals” and the risk inherent in them back, too?....more
Even as the administration is mulling over withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, Exxon Mobil’s shareholders have voted to demand a more detailed accounting of the climate change policy risks facing the company—an...more
Sustainable Development Focus - There's a way to invest in a cleaner environment, and the market is booming - Business Insider - Jun 6 - Summer is coming, and green bonds are blooming. Issuers of such bonds...more
China launched a green bond pilot initiative via the Shanghai Stock Exchange, encouraging further foreign investment in a rapidly growing asset class and paving the way for issuances by non-financial institutions....more