News
Mar
31
2025
The global energy transition presents a compelling investment opportunity, with private markets positioned to scale climate solutions. While venture capital has been critical in funding early-stage innovation, the challenge lies in commercializing and scaling these technologies. Growth equity firms are filling this gap by deploying ...more »
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Mar
31
2025
Stock markets opened lower for the fourth consecutive day due to global anticipation of President Donald Trump’s upcoming announcement of new tariffs, set to be revealed on April 2. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/03/31/bitcoin-nears-usd81k-xrp-ada-slide-as-traders-brace-for-tariff-war-ahead
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The European Supervisory Authorities publish evaluation report on the Securitisation Regulation
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Mar
31
2025
The Joint Committee (JC) of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) has today published its evaluation report on the functioning of the EU Securitisation Regulation (SECR). The report puts forward recommendations to strengthen the overall effectiveness of Europe’s securitisation framework through simplification, while ensuring a high level of protection for ...more »
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Interview with Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Andrés Stumpf
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Mar
24
2025
The last ECB Governing Council meeting left the door open for a pause in interest rate cuts, or even stopping them all together. Would you be OK with rates remaining at their current level of 2.5%? At the time of our March meeting, markets were ...more »
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Mar
24
2025
The number of ether held in wallets tied to centralized exchanges has dropped to the lowest since November 2015. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/03/24/ether-supply-on-centralized-exchange-hits-9-year-low-of-8-97m-eth
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Mar
24
2025
No single technology can meet the growing demand for electricity, necessitating a diverse energy mix for the future. Optimizing existing energy infrastructure will be essential to meet rising demand and support the transition to renewables. Lowering financing costs, securing long-term contracts and ensuring stable policies ...more »
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Mar
17
2025
Responsible investing, along with DEI and ESG, has received some politicised backlash in the media. But a recent survey of institutional asset owners and managers suggests the business case remains strong. This is because it makes good business sense to think broadly about risk and ...more »
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Mar
17
2025
This box analyses recent developments in the euro area rental market using data from the ECB Consumer Expectations Survey (CES). Rents are a large component of household spending, but their analysis has been somewhat challenging as harmonised data on households’ rent expenditure are not readily available ...more »
Mar
17
2025
Developments in house prices play an important role in the economic and monetary analyses conducted by central banks. Notably, they are indicative of the strength of monetary policy transmission and of household balance sheet positions. Residential property prices, in conjunction with financing conditions, affect the affordability ...more »
Mar
17
2025
Traders say the current sell-off could have been caused by an unwinding of ETF and spot linked traders. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/03/17/bitcoin-slumps-ada-sol-xrp-drop-5-as-buy-the-dip-sentiment-persists
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