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  • A very warm welcome to the Global Borrowers & Investors Forum 2020. This year we’re bringing the conference to you in this special publication — printed, and digitally on our website.
  • Policymakers have responded with impressive speed and purpose to ensure that a global health crisis does not turn into a global financial crisis. But what happens now that their cards have been played, and is there a plan for what to do once the great lockdown is lifted?
  • The European Central Bank’s chief supervisor has spoken out this week against the complexity of the capital triggers that can lead to restrictions on payments of additional tier one (AT1) coupons. He expressed his fear that these arrangements could be having a negative impact on bank lending behaviour during the coronavirus pandemic.
  • The UK cannot have unconditional, direct access to the EU’s financial markets when it fully leaves the bloc, according to a draft opinion set to be adopted on Friday by the European Parliament's committees for international trade and foreign affairs.
  • The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched the first systematic process by an issuer to formally integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into choosing its bookrunners. Senior funding officials and sustainability bankers have welcomed the initiative as an important evolution in the use of ESG in capital markets, write Burhan Khadbai and Jon Hay.
  • Robert Begbie has been appointed permanent chief executive of NatWest Markets, while David King, formerly head of MUFG Securities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, becomes chief financial officer.