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Romanian PM ousted in confidence vote after less than year

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Bloomberg Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu and his government were toppled in a no-confidence vote, intensifying political tensions that have already sent the national currency to a record low. Rivals and former allies joined forces on Tuesday in parliament to sink Citu, a 49-year-old former investment banker who’s been in power for less than a year but fell out with ...

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Banks start dropping clients to dodge costs tied to ESG risk

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Bloomberg European banks are beginning to drop clients that pose a climate risk rather than face possibility of higher capital requirements, according to the watchdog overseeing the development. Banks are raising prices, denying loan requests, “de-selecting industries and in some cases clients,” said Jacob Gyntelberg, director of the economic and risk analysis department at European Banking Authority (EBA). There’s already ...

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Colombia increases interest rate for first time in five years

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Bloomberg Colombia raised interest rates for the first time in five years, following in the footsteps of all the other major inflation-targeting economies in Latin America struggling to curb a surge in prices. The seven-member board voted to lift the benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point to 2% in a split decision, central bank Governor Leonardo Villar told reporters ...

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