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  • A bond banker who had spent over 15 years at RBC Capital Markets has joined the Council of Europe Development Bank as a funding officer.
  • Sustainable finance specialists are optimistic that the European Commission will make a last minute concession on its proposed rules for green buildings when it publishes its final and binding Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities, expected later this month.
  • Charlie Berman, the bond market veteran, believes the platform he is developing, Agora, will not face competition from other fintech applications in the debt capital markets, due to its unique selling point of covering the entire lifecycle of a bond and the use of distributed ledger technology.
  • Governments have had little choice but to load up on debt to save their economies. With the crucial support of low interest rates and vast quantitative easing programmes, there is little immediate threat to debt sustainability. But as Jasper Cox reports, nothing lasts forever.
  • The EU began its evolution in 2020 in becoming one of the largest issuers in the capital markets. While it was plain sailing for the first few deals, there are bigger tests ahead in 2021, with the EU’s borrowing set to balloon even further in size. Burhan Khadbai reports.
  • European left-wing politicians have called on the European Central Bank to cancel government bonds it has bought, to help countries suffering in the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis. But analysts believe this move would create a lot of political pain and little economic gain.