@Islabin

Reuters Corporate Governance correspondent in New York. Ex-Madrid, Rome and Milan. Any opinions are my own etc.

 New York, USA
Joined July 2010
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Magnitude 5.5 struck struck New York and New Jersey. It was felt in UN Security Council, where cameras shook. Save the Children CEO Janti Soeripto, who was addressing the UNSC on Gaza, stopped speaking. Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour quipped: “You’re making the ground shake.”
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SCOOP: The SEC has dropped a requirement for U.S.-listed companies to disclose so-called Scope 3 emissions, which was included in its original draft of the rules published in March 2022, source tell me and @ChrisPrentice @douglasgillison @Islabin
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ESG funds suffer weaker demand despite help from tech-sector performance @RossKerber @reuterstommy @Islabin reuters.com/sustainability/s…
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EXCLUSIVE: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency carried out its first climate risk assessment of more than two dozen banks in recent months, signaling more scrutiny of Wall Street's accounting for such threats. By @Islabin & @ChrisPrentice reuters.com/sustainability/c…

EXCLUSIVE: US regulator probes banks' climate risk planning

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) carried out its first climate risk assessment of more than two dozen banks in recent months, laying the groundwork for...

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California governor Gavin Newsom must decide by Oct. 14 whether to oblige large companies to disclose carbon footprints including, eventually, indirect greenhouse gas emissions. Apple is in favour, California Chamber of Commerce against. reuters.com/world/us/califor…

California Senate passes climate bill, governor must decide by Oct 14

California's state Senate on Tuesday approved a bill requiring large companies to report their carbon footprints, sending the bill to Governor Gavin Newsom whose office said he must decide by Oct. 14...

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Inside Cleveland-Cliffs' bid to keep US blast furnaces smelting @Islabin @biancashamell reuters.com/sustainability/i…

Focus: Inside Cleveland-Cliffs' bid to keep U.S. blast furnaces smelting

High costs and environmental opposition have prevented the construction of blast furnaces at steel mills in the United States since 1980. Cleveland-Cliffs Inc CEO Lourenco Goncalves is on a mission...

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#Blackrock says its reduced support for shareholder proposals on #environmental and #social issues is due to those resolutions increasingly "over-reaching" and not recognising some corporate progress #esg reuters.com/business/finance…

BlackRock continues lowering support for environmental and social proposals

Top asset manager BlackRock on Wednesday reported a further decline in its support for shareholder resolutions on environmental and social themes, citing corporate progress on the areas and poor...

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BlackRock continues lowering support for environmental and social proposals reuters.com/business/finance… @RossKerber @Islabin

BlackRock continues lowering support for environmental and social proposals

Top asset manager BlackRock on Wednesday reported a further decline in its support for shareholder resolutions on environmental and social themes, citing corporate progress on the areas and poor...

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Canadian pension funds explore $6 bln sale of renewables firm Cubico -sources reuters.com/markets/deals/ca… @islabin @agestebaran

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian pension funds explore $6 bln sale of renewables firm Cubico -sources

Two of Canada's biggest pension funds are exploring options including a sale of Cubico Sustainable Investments that could value the renewable energy firm at about $6 billion or more, including debt,...

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Gabon has delayed its $500m debt-for-nature swap, according to two sources who blamed market volatility after Treasury yields spiked. The tender was expected to close on Aug 10 - now it's expected to be Aug 15. Story with @marcjonesrtrs and @Islabin reuters.com/world/africa/gab…

Gabon 'debt-for-nature' swap delayed amid market volatility

Gabon has delayed a bond buyback that will kick off a $500 million 'debt-for-nature' swap, Africa's first with international sovereign bonds, according to two sources with knowledge of the deal who...

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Dampening? Halfway through shareholder meetings, support for #environmental resolutions was 25%, versus 38% for the whole previous season, and 43% for the whole year prior. Fascinating from @RossKerber #ESG reuters.com/sustainability/u…

US companies face less pressure for climate and social reforms

Shareholder support for proxy resolutions on topics including climate change and workforce diversity dropped significantly this spring, analysts said, as tough proposals from activists met with...

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#GM signs up its #EV drivers to be able to use #Tesla's supercharger network - the ripples our @Reuters story predicted are starting big! @abhiruproy30 @HyunjooJin reuters.com/business/autos-t…

Ford's EV charging tie-up with Tesla ripples through industry

Ford Motor Co's decision to allow customers to use Tesla's TSLA.O electric-vehicle charging network has sent ripples through the industry, raising questions about a national U.S. charging standard as...

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@Reuters #BreakingNews - @GM says to collaborate with @Tesla to integrate the North American Charging Standard #NACS connector design into its EVs beginning 2025 #EV #EVCharging #ElectricVehicles
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'ESG' in US finance job titles comes with 20% pay premium reuters.com/sustainability/e…

'ESG' in US finance job titles comes with 20% pay premium

U.S.-based bankers and money managers whose job titles include "ESG" or "sustainability" earn on average around 20% higher base salaries than colleagues of the same seniority without those labels,...

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Political turbulence dragged on Ecuador's bond prices, giving a boost to the economics of the biggest ever debt-for-nature swap, which also survived the troubles of lynchpin lender Credit Suisse @marcjonesrtrs @rodrigocampos reuters.com/world/americas/e…

Ecuador frees cash for Galapagos conservation with $1.6 billion bond buyback

Ecuador is set to complete the biggest ever debt-for-nature swap, freeing up cash for conservation of the Galapagos Islands, one of the world's most precious ecosystems, after Credit Suisse bought up...

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"It's supposed to be mark-to-market, not mark-to-fantasy," Peiffer said. "You want to understand why something is marked the way it is." ⁦@GQReuters⁩ reuters.com/markets/us/icahn…

Icahn's mark-up of meat packager extraordinary but possible, experts say

As investors and financial experts pored over Hindenburg Research's allegations against activist investor Carl Icahn's holding company this week, one easy-to-verify claim stood out in the short...

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On the plains of Iowa and the hills of New Hampshire, Republican presidential hopefuls ditch talk of the debt ceiling for “red-meat” topics like gender issues in schools ⁦@G_Slattery⁩ ⁦@ByTimReid⁩ reuters.com/world/us/why-rep…

Why Republican presidential hopefuls are keeping out of US debt-ceiling squabble

It is the one topic that everyone on Capitol Hill is talking about and yet hundreds of miles away, on the plains of Iowa and the hills of New Hampshire, none of the Republicans vying for the 2024...

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Governor Ron DeSantis bans Florida public officials from "ideological joyrides" (ESG investing and borrowing), raising questions about how to think about financial risks from climate and weather @RossKerber @Reuters tinyurl.com/yck8xsfz
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INSIGHT-How JPMorgan's Dimon won the First Republic deal reuters.com/article/first-re… @Nupursays @ASenjourno @davidj_french @Islabin
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Missing the word 'second'! Fifth Third Bancorp was the fourth bidder for First Republic. Nice nugget from @asenjourno @davidjfrench reuters.com/business/finance… $FITB $FRC

EXCLUSIVE: Fifth Third Bancorp bid for First Republic before sale to JPMorgan

Fifth Third Bancorp was one the banks that submitted final bids for First Republic Bank on Sunday before it was sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co , people familiar with the matter said.

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