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In early July, a cub reporter who had only left university the year before filed a story that would cause UK fast fashion company Boohoo’s share price to tumble.

This week in Keeping Tabs: Republicans battle over Federal Reserve support, a look back at the "Spanish" flu, and a quiz from the Bank of England.

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has praised new framework for on-balance sheet securitizations in Europe, but warned that it may also make deals more costly and complicated.

On Friday the EMEA ECM market was wrapping up for year end with many bankers and investors spending one more day at work while others had left already. However, the market is already looking ahead to the new year and a busy season of new listings.

Trig, the London-listed renewable infrastructure investment firm, has signed a £500m loan with its margin linked to Sonia rather than Libor, as loans bankers try to encourage borrowers look at their loan documents soon to avoid bottlenecks next year.

FMS Wertmanagement, the Germany’s winding-up institution for the nationalised Hypo Real Estate Holding AG, will need to borrow a much smaller sum from public bond markets next year as a result of an increase in direct long-term euro funding from Germany’s Financial Market Stabilisation Fund (SoFFin).

In the second part of GlobalCapital China’s awards announcements, we reveal the winning banks across Panda bonds and ABS, as well as the best bank for securities services.

GlobalCapital China is pleased to announce the winners of its annual awards, recognising the banks, issuers and individuals that have made the biggest contribution to developing China’s onshore markets. In part one, we reveal the most impressive issuers in the FIG, corporate and SSA categories.

In the final part of GlobalCapital China’s awards announcements, we reveal the year’s key innovation – and the individual who has made the greatest contribution to reforming and internationalising the onshore market.

Public sector bond issuers surprised on the upside in 2020. In 2021, banks predict them to be big borrowers again — and they expect to make money from them. Twenty-six heads of debt capital markets in the EMEA market participated in Toby Fildes’ annual outlook survey. Only a few firms are expecting to have to cut jobs, but the UK will bear the brunt. On the eve of Brexit taking full effect, Paris, Frankfurt and Dublin look set to be the winning cities. Good news for all: 80% of banks see the last significant Covid restrictions being lifted by the second half of 2021.

Indonesia’s government has been lauded for taking a proactive approach to combat the impact of the pandemic this year, unleashing a spate of fiscal and monetary policies to spur growth and rallying state-owned enterprises to offer support. There are still plenty of challenges ahead but the ministry of finance and the central bank have proved to be careful stewards of the economy.

Why have Indonesian state-owned companies seen resounding success in the dollar bond market this year amid the pandemic? Morgan Davis finds out.