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In this round-up, China releases a white paper detailing the country’s efforts in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, trade surplus surges in May as imports plunge, and the Mainland’s foreign currency reserves are better than expected. -
Each week, GlobalCapital journalists share some of the most interesting things they have been reading, from the profound to the quirky. This week has been marked by widespread protests across the US and the wider world, in reaction to an unarmed African-American man, George Floyd, dying while a policeman knelt on his neck in Minneapolis.
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Rating agency Scope beat many European agencies to the punch in adopting new covered bond rating methodology in 2015, which is today considered a standard approach. But the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) is fining the agency on the grounds that it failed to apply it consistently and with the regulator’s permission.
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In this round-up, China says it will make the Hainan province a world-class “free trade port”, the May Caixin China general services purchasing managers index beat consensus by a large margin, and the central government will sell over Rmb100bn ($14bn) of treasury bonds next week.
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Programmes to cut the debts owed to official and private creditors would deliver much-needed financial assistance to emerging markets hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report by leading economists.
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The Bank of England is working to ensure UK financial markets can cope with further strains in the case of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, or a severe economic downturn.
