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  • Volatility indexes may be showing their lowest levels in years and Emmanuel Macron may be safely ensconced in the Élysée Palace, but it would be a brave person to say that the political risks are behind us this year.
  • Regulation does not just exist on a continuum between good and bad. There’s lots of ugly, as well.
  • Rules are made to be broken — even the ABS risk retention rules it seems. But structured finance officials should think long and hard hard about whether they want to return to a world where credit quality is an afterthought.
  • News that Volvofinans Bank, the finance arm of Volvo Cars, is planning a green bond backed by its loans on hybrid and other non-fossil fuel cars is a welcome sign of the green awareness spreading across the corporate world.
  • A new $2bn fund to be launched by the IFC and Amundi is the most important step for green bonds in the emerging markets yet.
  • The 1978 film Dawn of the Dead satirised the mindless consumerism of 1970s America, with survivors seeking refuge in a shopping mall from flesh-eating zombies who seemed bent on returning to this once focal point of US society. A modern day remake might not hit the mark.