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In this round-up, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) sold Rmb30bn ($4.3bn) of central bank bills in Hong Kong, China’s foreign reserves grew slightly and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) took an important step to improving foreign participation in its Star market. -
At its results presentation on Thursday, UniCredit's CEO Jean Pierre Mustier scotched rumours that it was planning to set up a new German holding company and revealed instead plans for a holding company in Italy, designed to make its organisational structure more efficient for regulatory capital and resolution purposes.
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Valdis Dombrovskis, who is in line to be executive vice-president of the new European Commission, said this week that he would soon deliver on the promise of Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming president, who said in July that she intended “to put forward a strategy for green financing”.
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Funding Circle has breached the terms of its securitization SBOLT 2018–1 — a book of loans originated on the platform and was bought by Pollen Street Capital’s P2P Global fund. The breach was driven by a shift in the company’s business model from a pure tech platform to a non-bank lender using its own capital. Funding Circle has asked investors to waive the breach.
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GFI announced that it will re-establish its Tokyo hub on Thursday, launching a new G10 forwards FX desk.
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Agora, the digital debt capital markets platform being developed by bond market veteran Charlie Berman, has closed its initial seed funding round with contributions from a small group of individuals, including Michael Spencer, the founder and former CEO of interdealer broker Icap, which later became Nex Group.
