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Europe's Banks Drop Restraints to Profit From Armaments Boom

European banks are shifting their focus to highlight their relationships with defense companies, a sector previously seen as a reputational risk, and are changing guidelines and policies to work with weapons manufacturers.1 hour ag

Europe's Banks Drop Restraints to Profit From Armaments Boom 

Europe's Banks Drop Restraints to Profit From Armaments Boom - Bloomberg
 
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Deal-hungry equity investors eye Europe's potential defense industry boom 

Deal-hungry equity investors eye Europe's potential defence industry boom |  Reuters
Item 1 of 2 A view of a Leopard 2 tank at a production line as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Defence Minister Boris Pistorius visit the future site of an arms factory where weapons maker Rheinmetall plans to produce artilleries from 2025, in Unterluess, Germany February 12, 2024. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/Pool/File Photo
Summary
  • Private equity investors gather this week at annual conference
  • Shift in sentiment towards European defence investments, even among ESG-focused investors
  • Private equity dealmaking hindered by recession threats
BERLIN, June 4 (Reuters) - 
Global investors and advisers gathered at their annual conference in Berlin are looking at channelling funds into Europe's defence industry, seeking to profit from governments' ramped-up military spending and revive a sluggish private equity market.

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Private equity and venture capital-backed investment in Europe's aerospace and defence sector is dwarfed by that funnelled into the U.S. and Canada, which have absorbed 83% of all such investment since 2020, according to S&P.
 
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