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Singapore’s UOB has appointed Eric Lim as its chief sustainability officer, a newly created position to support the bank’s focus on ESG, which got a fresh impetus this week with the sale of the lender’s first sustainability bond. -
Mexico cleaned up a chunk of short-term debt maturities on Tuesday with a $3.26bn 2041 bond. The country’s deputy finance minister told GlobalCapital that the sovereign had decided to act fast to issue amid expectations that US Treasury yields will widen further.
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A group of institutional investors owning international bonds issued by Suriname have agreed to grant the South American sovereign a third debt payment standstill after the issuer modified the terms of a consent solicitation.
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An uneven economic recovery is expected across emerging and developed markets over the next year, the IMF said this week during its spring meetings. Meanwhile, a proposed boost to special drawing rights has split market opinion.
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The announcement this week that the IMF is on its way to issuing a further $650bn of special drawing rights, providing central banks with extra foreign currency liquidity, should not be criticised for being too little, too late. It marks a much needed return to multilateralism, something that the developing world will benefit from.
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Commercial Bank of Qatar kicked off the second quarter with its first Swiss deal of the year. It was joined by New York Life, which raised Sfr475m as it benefited from its two triple-A ratings.
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