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  • SSA borrowers have long been used to having it their way amid the exceptional monetary easing meted out by central banks since the global financial crisis. But this week could be the moment things started swinging back in favour of investors.
  • DNB Boligkreditt showed this week that borrowers have a very good incentive to consider issuing green covered bonds, especially now that the European Central Bank has signalled its intention to reduce net buying of assets under the Covered Bond Purchase Programme (CBPP3) to zero by December.
  • A year on from the collapse Banco Popular, the public should have much greater transparency about the bank resolution process in Europe.
  • After a year of European elections failing to have much effect on markets, Italy has reminded everyone of the need to know their Mattarellas from their Di Maios. But the country stands apart when it comes to political risk.
  • The recovery of Turkish asset prices this week is less the result of prudent monetary policy — though that certainly helped — and more a lesson in the benefits of the personal touch and that markets are, ultimately, populated by humans.
  • The European Commission’s target for having Banking Union in place by 2019 is looking increasingly like an impossible dream.