Solactive, a technology-enabled provider of indices and index solutions to the global financial services industry, today announced a €50 million minority investment from global growth equity firm Summit Partners. The investment will help support Solactive's continued global growth, as the company expands its product offering and presence worldwide...

Nomura Mezzanine Partners Co., Ltd. (“N-MEZ”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced that it has completed the final close on its mezzanine fund N-MEZ Investment Business Limited Partnership 1 (the “Fund”).

CNP Assurances has successfully placed €500 million worth of notes due 8 March 2028 and paying interest at 0.375%. The notes qualify as Tier 3 capital under Solvency II. Its cost is the lowest ever paid for hybrid capital by a financial institution in Europe.

Fitch downgraded Hong Kong's rating to ‘AA-', from ‘AA', in April 2020 and revised the Outlook to Stable from Negative, following an earlier downgrade from ‘AA+' in September 2019. The economic fallout from the pandemic and earlier anti-government protests played a role.

The European Union (“EU”), rated AAA/AAA/Aaa/AA/AAA by DBRS, Fitch, Moody's, S&P and SCOPE (positive outlook for S&P, stable for the other rating agencies), today issued a €8.5 billion single tranche social bond due in July 2035. This was the third EU transaction under the Support to mitigate Unemployment Risk in an Emergency (SURE) programme.