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  • The European Securities and Markets Authority has publicly censured Standard & Poor’s over wrongly claiming France had been downgraded in November 2011. It said that S&P had failed to meet requirements of the Credit Rating Agency regulation but stopped short of imposing any fines or penalties other than the public humiliation of the notice.
  • Bond market luminaries from Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, KfW and Legal & General met on a panel at ICMA’s AGM event in Berlin to discuss whether debt capital markets, against a backdrop of tougher regulation, squeezed margins and skinny inventories, were really fit for purpose.
  • A significant number of senior buy- and sellside participants think that the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II will have a negative impact upon liquidity, according to a survey conducted by MarketAxess and Trax.
  • Investors have been picking up short-dated options on the euro against the dollar ahead of the European Central Bank meeting, due to take place Thursday.
  • John Millar has taken over from Alistair Walmsley as the London Stock Exchange’s head of primary markets, as the exchange continues to see the bulk of busy primary market activity.
  • E-trading bond platform MarketAxess is bidding to capture more of the order flow associated with fixed income ETFs, following a tie-up with BlackRock, founders of the ETF industry and managers of the iShares brand.