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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Green Investment Bonds Are Credit Negative For Banks

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Mark Melin
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When European Commission (EC) Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis announced an array of green investment proposals to encourage capital formation in green investment bonds – including lowering capital requirements regulators will allow for such investments – this intervention is viewed as a negative, according to Moody’s. While the overall goal to more closely conform with the Paris Agreement is viewed as a consistent policy statement from the European Parliament (EP) – and encourages investment in a geopolitically strategic industry -- it is not a credit positive for the banks, Moody’s analyst Alberto Postigo says.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.