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Moody's uses market value CLO framework for its first Bitcoin bond rating

State of New Hampshire's innovative bond gets Ba2 rating
◆ Dutch issuer brings new euro benchmark at last, with social label ◆ Most recent euro line opened over 10 months ago ◆ Peers' bonds helpful to pricing given BNG's absence

NIB names Hellerup new treasurer

Head of funding for 16 years steps up at Nordic supra

Gulf banks face higher capital costs as war bites economies

Central banks in the region have stepped in with support and lenders are thought unlikely to let sub debt extend
◆ Dutch issuer brings new euro benchmark at last, with social label ◆ Most recent euro line opened over 10 months ago ◆ Peers' bonds helpful to pricing given BNG's absence
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  • In this round-up, China’s economic growth slows in the second quarter, Beijing launches the world’s largest carbon emission trading scheme, and the top market regulator approves Tencent Holdings’ plan to take US-listed search engine Sogou private.
  • Tony Hayward, the former boss of BP, is joining this year’s $117bn Spac IPO market by launching a new blank cheque company on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange that will focus on energy transition.
  • For all their espoused commitment to capitalism — a system in which outdated ideas are supposed to be allowed to perish when superseded by newer, better ways of doing things — there is a club of leaders at the top of investment banking that seems obstinately, sentimentally, and possibly even damagingly attached to the way things have always been done.
  • The renaissance of renewable energy companies in the equity capital markets grew on Monday with the IPO of GreenVolt, the Portuguese biomass energy company, which is set to wrap up its listing on the Lisbon stock exchange.
  • As the debate over emerging market debt restructuring rages on, market participants have expressed their frustration at the lack of clarity over the outcomes.
  • The Federal Housing Finance Agency is set to take a different direction under the the presidency of Joe Biden from the one it took under Donald Trump, with a laser-like focus on affordable housing. To further the affordable housing agenda, the US's government-sponsored enterprises are expected to ramp up their volumes of RMBS issuance to boost the availability of mortgages.