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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer Li Auto has raised $750m from its debut convertible bond, pricing the deal at the investor-friendly end of the marketed range.
  • Development banks across the world — and especially those in Africa — have proven to be indispensable sources of relief during the last year. Though Africa has a wealth of challenges to economic recovery, the West African Development Bank, also known as Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement (BOAD), has high ambitions for the year ahead. The bank’s president Serge Ekué spoke to GlobalCapital about these ambitions, including an imminent capital raise.