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KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. — Moody’s assigns first-time Ba2 backed senior secured rating to KKR Real Estate Finance Trust’s Term Loan B; outlook stable

Edna J. May

Rating Action: Moody’s assigns first-time Ba2 backed senior secured rating to KKR Real Estate Finance Trust’s Term Loan B; outlook stable

New York, July 27, 2020 — Moody’s Investors Service, (“Moody’s”) has assigned a first-time Ba3 corporate family rating to KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. (KREF) and a backed Ba2 rating to the company’s senior secured term loan B, issued by subsidiary KREF Holdings X LLC. The outlook for both entities is stable.

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Who’s on top in the first sustainable finance league table?

Edna J. May

Welcome to Moral Money. Today we have:

Refinitiv launches the first-ever sustainable finance league tables

How the pandemic and PPE are adding to the plastic pollution problem

Junk bonds go green in Europe

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ESG proponents optimistic about US proxy adviser regulation

Investors fire back at US anti-ESG rule for retirement market

Refinitiv this week launched the first-ever league tables for sustainable finance, which represents an important milestone for the maturation of the ESG investing market.

The rankings cover a breadth of different sectors, listing the top banks and deals across debt and equity capital markets,

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Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun was arrested for a 2nd time in relation to the company’s $2 billion accounting scandal

Edna J. May
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  • Wirecard’s former chief executive Markus Braun has been rearrested in Munich as German prosecutors dug deeper into allegations of fraud at the fintech firm.

  • Two other executives — revealed by the Financial Times as Wirecard’s former finance boss, Burkhard Ley, and Stephan von Erffa, ex-head of accounting — were also arrested.

  • Former chief operating officer, Jan Marsalek, has likely escaped to Russia with the “clear help of Russian intelligence,” two officials told Business Insider. 

  • Wirecard filed for insolvency a month ago soon after revealing an amount of 1.9 billion euros ($2 billion) was missing

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How unemployed Americans will cope without an extra $600

Edna J. May

Americans face a steep drop in their unemployment benefits at a time when coronavirus cases are spiking again and more states are abruptly pausing their reopenings, trends that threaten to derail the nation’s economic recovery when millions are already out of work.

The cause of the shrinking unemployment checks? That extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits that was passed under the CARES Act in March is set to end this week, dealing a blow to millions if Congress doesn’t pass new legislation. Another coronavirus relief package likely won’t be approved until after July, policymakers have warned.

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