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  • The burgeoning green bond sector took two important strides this week, as the European Investment Bank increased an outstanding deal to the largest volume on record and the African Development Bank entered the Scandinavian capital markets for the first time with its second ever green bond.
  • In 2014, emerging market bankers will be chasing after bigger mandates, but fewer of them if this year’s numbers are anything to go by. The average size of an emerging market bond in the first weeks of this year has leapt skywards compared to previous years while the number of deals priced has plummeted, according to Dealogic data. But DCM officials say they see little real change in the way deals are pitched or sold as a result of that new strategy.
  • Real money and hedge funds are showing interest in total return credit linked notes linked to Ugandan onshore bonds, according to Gillian Gordon, director of structuring, financial markets at Standard Chartered in London.
  • Renaissance Capital has appointed Robert Lamprecht as chief executive officer of Renaissance Capital in South Africa.
  • Crédit Agricole’s fourth quarter results showed that the bank was feeling the positive effects of its cost reduction plan and business disposals it conducted during 2013. This cost-cutting affected the corporate and investment bank, which experienced a drop in revenues, although group revenues increased.
  • Emerging markets-focused miner First Quantum has launched a $2.5bn syndicated loan into the market, and is already attracting lenders new to the name.