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  • The Mexican arm of Spanish lender Santander wrapped up a buyback of subordinated tier two debt on Thursday as DCM bankers said they expected cross-border issuance from the country to remain muted.
  • Progress was announced this week on two drives to assess the risk of climate change to businesses. The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) now has 513 supporters; and Moody’s has updated its environmental risk heat map, showing that 11 sectors with $2.2tr of debt have elevated risk.
  • Noel Edison, a veteran banker who has run the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's financial institution operations since joining in 2010, is retiring from the development bank.
  • Among the host of sustainable finance-related announcements this week to coincide with the UN General Assembly session in New York, one of the most potentially significant is from the Impact Management Project.
  • When UK telecoms company Vodafone announced in May that it had agreed to buy some of US rival Liberty Global’s European operations, it said it would use existing cash, €3bn of mandatorily convertible bonds and new debt, including hybrid bonds to fund the €18.4bn acquisition. On Wednesday, Vodafone sold the hybrid bonds, using four different tenors in three currencies. Nigel Owen reports.
  • Republic of Hungary