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A breach of reporting covenants on a €350m 2022 bond of Vieo, the company that owns the low cost mobile telecoms provider Lebara, has left the Nordic high yield bond market soul searching. -
Hong Kong’s market regulator is planning to ban UBS from sponsoring any IPOs in the city for 18 months, according to a section in the bank’s 2017 annual report released on Friday.
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The People’s Bank of China believes market appetite, instead of government policy, now drives the RMB’s level of usage offshore, three sovereign issuers line up Panda bond debuts, and China’s FX reserves shrink marginally after growing for the past 11 months.
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Brussels has moved even faster than green finance experts hoped to bring forward its Sustainable Finance Action Plan, a document stuffed with measures to change the way financial markets operate and make them better fitted for the fight against climate change.
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The European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan, announced on March 8, involves no less than 10 different workstreams, covering a wide range of the ideas put forward by the High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, which held a one year inquiry for the European Commission during 2017.
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The EU’s lenient treatment of the IFRS 9 accounting rules has opened a loophole for Italian banks — allowing them to push through punishing provisions on their NPL portfolios, but wish away the impact on their regulatory capital — which could save the weakest banks from turning to shareholders for more cash, and speed up portfolio sales.
