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Bursa Malaysia has overhauled a range of government securities futures products to create a Malaysian government bond benchmark for local and foreign investors. -
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has appointed a senior official of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to its board of directors, in its first ever appointment of a supranational institution.
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FMS Wertmanagement’s Jens Remmers is taking on a new position within the German agency’s group, becoming treasurer of Depfa Bank.
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The European Stability Mechanism has hired an industry veteran from the European Investment Fund to run its middle and back offices.
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The World Bank broke a 30 year silence in special drawing rights (SDR) bonds with the sale of a SDR500m ($700m) three year note in China on Wednesday. While the Mulan bond is widely seen as a symbolic gesture to promote the internationalisation of the renminbi, market participants said it is more than that, in spite of the relatively narrow investor base. Paolo Danese and Rev Hui report.
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Incompatible accounting standards could soon be a thing of the past for foreign issuers looking to tap into China’s onshore bond market with the World Bank’s upcoming SDR trade providing a template on how to get around this long standing issue.
