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Frank Czichowski, KfW’s treasurer for more than 15 years, will be retiring in 2020. KfW has announced that it will hire the former treasurer of another German agency as his replacement. -
The average number of primary dealerships in the European Union has dropped to equal the lowest on record, according the Association for Financial Markets in Europe’s latest government bond data report.
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Financial specialists will have two years to work out how to implement the European Union’s Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities, which now looks certain to become law in the coming months. But investors, companies and banks are likely to start using the huge document much sooner than that, in a wide variety of ways.
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European member states have voted to approve the law introducing the Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities at the second time of asking, after France and other objectors won concessions in favour of nuclear power that pro-green observers insisted were nothing to worry about.
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HSBC has named two bankers as global co-heads of its debt capital markets team, replacing Jean-Marc Mercier. It is also planning to open two new desks.
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In 2019, public sector borrowers led the way in the implementation of the new risk-free rates, with Sonia becoming a mainstream product. The question is whether Sofr and €STR can become as widely adopted as financial markets prepare for the end of Libor. Burhan Khadbai reports
