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  • Everyone in debt capital markets has heard of green bonds, and most in the financial world accept that sustainability and greenness are Good Things. But for all the grand commitments and PR initiatives, understanding of the issues is still as hazy as a Beijing smog.
  • Investor Access, a platform which allows investors to submit orders for a new bond issue directly into the order book was deployed for the first time last week on a Commonwealth Bank of Australia sterling covered bond. Now work is underway to convince more dealers of the initiative’s worth.
  • The Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) has recommended the city to speed up the implementation of Bond Connect to strengthen its position as a global offshore renminbi hub.
  • The risk of a devastating collapse in oil and gas companies’ share prices, when investors suddenly start pricing in climate change, is one scenario financial regulators are trying to ward off with the launch of new guidelines this week, which are a milestone in the world’s response to global warming.
  • More than half of a global group of 276 investors surveyed by HSBC have a strategy for reducing the environmental impact of their activities — but 74% of them encounter barriers to increasing their low carbon financing, mainly a lack of credible investment opportunities.
  • The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has fined two more banks and sanctioned a former Goldman Sachs executive for breaches related to the disgraced Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.