The latest in funds and investments across North America.

CIBC
Financial services firm CIBC has launched Canada's first social bond framework focused on corporations with a commitment to women working in leadership roles. 

The bonds will help meet a growing demand among institutional investors for socially responsible investments and generate awareness of the importance of gender diversity across corporate Canada. Bonds offered under this new framework support CIBC's corporate lending to companies where:

- A minimum of 30 per cent of the board or executive positions are held by women, or;
- They are signatories of the Catalyst Accord 2022; and
- All companies included must have a minimum of one woman on the board and one woman in an executive position.

JP Morgan Chase
JP Morgan Chase credit card customers who open a new Sapphire bank account are eligible for a 60,000-point sign-on bonus, according to CNBC. It is worth around $900 when redeemed for travel through the bank's ultimate rewards portal.

According to the report, the users have to bring at least $75,000 in deposits or investments and keep it at the bank for at least three months. The new offer begins in October, but people who signed up for a Sapphire bank account when it was announced last month are still eligible if they are new or upgraded account holders. Points are awarded 45 days after a client maintains balances for 90 days. Those who were automatically switched into a Sapphire account because they already kept $75,000 or more at the bank won't get the bonus.

The Sapphire bank account gives clients access to events and members-only lounges as well as unlimited free trades on the bank's brokerage app.

The US bank caused a issue in 2016 when it introduced its Sapphire Reserve card with a 100,000-point sign-on bonus and other luxury advantages. The card reportedly has cost the firm hundreds of millions of dollars in rewards expenses. However, the firm’s executives have said they want to gain stronger relations with their new card customers, who tended to be relatively affluent and younger. 

This publication has contacted the firm for a comment, and will update in due course.

Amundi
European asset manager Amundi has placed its first selection of its flagship UCITS exchange traded fundson the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV).

With the acquisition of Pioneer Investments last year, Amundi has made a strategic plan to invest in the Americas region with expanded operations in Latin America, Canada, and the US, through Amundi Pioneer in Boston and Durham.

Along with equity exposures to the S&P 500, Euro Stoxx 50, CAC 40, DAX and Japan Topix indices, Mexican investors can access core Amundi ETF fixed income exposures to US dollar aggregate bonds and corporate bonds.