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  • The IMF and Zambia will continue their negotiations about a package to put the country on a path to financial stability, the Fund said on Thursday, after the deadline for initial talks had passed the day before with no deal agreed. But market participants are still demanding more transparency over the defaulted sovereign's external debts.
  • In this special round-up on China’s annual Two Sessions parliamentary meeting, the central government sets a conservative annual growth target for the Chinese economy in 2021, signals a modest tightening in fiscal and monetary policies, and plans to broaden regulatory oversight of the fintech sector.
  • SRI
    The UK’s monetary policy will officially be designed to fight climate change from now on, after chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak changed the Bank of England’s mandate this week, delighting sustainable finance campaigners.
  • Senior market participants welcomed the announcement of the UK Infrastructure Bank’s creation in this week’s Budget speech. While it is unlikely to tap capital markets in the near future, bankers hope the bank will evolve into a major government agency borrower that prints socially responsible bonds to help in the UK’s goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
  • ABS
    The railcar securitization market has comfortably exceeded last year’s issuance volume already with the addition of Napier Park, a New York based alternative asset management platform. Bolstered by strong investor appetite for yieldy paper, railcar ABS deals will continue to be well subscribed and in high demand, sources say.
  • SRI
    The UK’s Budget on Wednesday is likely to go down as the greenest ever, but it still left sustainable finance advocates disappointed, as Rishi Sunak, the chancellor of the exchequer, failed to give clarity on vital programmes and spending, at the beginning of a decade in which the country will have to make vital investments towards achieving its ambition of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.