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  • The European Stability Mechanism’s board of governors on Monday reappointed ESM managing director Klaus Regling for a second five year term, which will start on October 8.
  • Emboldened Congressional Republicans ramped up attacks against the US Federal Reserve on Wednesday, taking aim at the central bank’s role in negotiating international financial rules and its bond purchase programmes. But chair Janet Yellen was defiant, and said the Fed would remain a part of the Basel negotiations.
  • International banks want quick answers from the Kenyan government on the status of its loan from Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (PTA Bank), which has threatened their bigger syndication for the sovereign just as the mandate is being finalised.
  • Clearstream, one of Europe’s largest settlement platforms, joined the European Central Bank’s Target 2 Securities (T2S) platform last week — a long-awaited move which could ease the collateral crunch facing banks, as well as pave the wave for a switch to new settlement technologies such as blockchain.
  • Cicero, the climate research institute at Oslo University, has produced a report to help investors work out where they face risks from climate change, with red, orange and yellow flags for the severity and immediacy of threats.
  • Green finance leaders are hoping the European Union will come up with concrete initiatives to help the market, after its new official body on the subject met for the first time last week.