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  • Chin-stroking academic studies have mostly failed to find evidence of the ‘liquidity crunch’ which investors and traders alike say has taken hold of bond markets in the wake of tougher regulation. Now that looks to be changing.
  • 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.
  • FMS Wertmanagement’s Jens Remmers is taking on a new position within the German agency’s group, becoming treasurer of Depfa Bank.
  • The European Stability Mechanism has hired an industry veteran from the European Investment Fund to run its middle and back offices.
  • 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.