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  • Everyone in debt capital markets has heard of green bonds, and most in the financial world accept that sustainability and greenness are Good Things. But for all the grand commitments and PR initiatives, understanding of the issues is still as hazy as a Beijing smog.
  • Following the tragic death of Romain Etienne last week, his family welcomes all friends and colleagues that want to attend his funeral.
  • BlackRock became the largest shareholder in Lloyds Bank on Monday, after the UK government reduced its holdings in the lender to less than 6%.
  • Investor Access, a platform which allows investors to submit orders for a new bond issue directly into the order book was deployed for the first time last week on a Commonwealth Bank of Australia sterling covered bond. Now work is underway to convince more dealers of the initiative’s worth.
  • GlobalCapital is saddened to report that Romain Etienne, a FIG syndicate banker at Morgan Stanley, died suddenly this week. We would like to pass on our condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.
  • The ECB’s review of bank internal models, dubbed TRIM, looks set to swell bank balance sheets in the year ahead — partially removing any benefit European firms get from a delay of the Basel Committee’s new credit risk rules.