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  • Italian MPs are threatening to use a vote in parliament this week to derail a recent EU agreement on planned reforms for the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).
  • The Loan Market Association has got its contractual ducks in a row as it prepares to launch a new platform to automate parts of the documentation process for loans and ancillary services, with the industry body looking to start the service early next year.
  • Covered bond participants will be looking eagerly to the European Central Bank’s policy meeting this Thursday in anticipation of a host of new stimulus measures, the most important of which is likely to be the targeted long term refinancing operation, where lower rates for longer are expected to impinge on supply.
  • The European Central Bank is set to meet on Thursday and is widely expected to announce a substantial increase to its Asset Purchase Programme. Antonio Cavarero, head of investment at Generali Investments, expects the ECB to stand foursquare behind European government borrowing.
  • UBS’s head of Asia equity capital markets Peihao Huang has resigned from her position. She will join JP Morgan’s ECM team, GlobalCapital Asia understands.
  • Fitch has downgraded Malaysia for the first time since the Asian financial crisis, slashing the sovereign rating by one notch to BBB+ due to the Covid-19 crisis and political uncertainty.