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  • As Western societies begin to contemplate life returning to some semblance of normality, the financial industry is working out how best to balance the understandable desire to get back to how things were before the crisis with the very real threat of a new and more deadly wave of coronavirus brought on by a mass-return to offices. GlobalCapital’s Silas Brown spoke with Peter Openshaw, a specialist in immunology and virology and professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College, about the transmission of Covid-19 and how banks, investors and companies can reduce the risk of infection.
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    Morgan Stanley Investment Management has hired a prominent expert to be its global head of sustainability and brought a senior banker from its capital markets arm to run its sustainable bond investing.
  • Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (BVG) touched off a legal bombshell on Tuesday morning. It left the ECB in an impossible position: it can accept the court's verdict or ignore it, but either decision will undermine its efforts to stabilise Europe's capital markets.
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    Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that, while it was not illegal for the Bundesbank to participate in the the European Central Bank’s Public Sector Purchase Programme, the country's central bank may not participate in it unless the ECB can provide a thorough impact assessment. The decision rejected an earlier verdict by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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    The European Central Bank (ECB) gave lenders even more of an incentive to use its Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations (TLTRO) this week, dropping the potential rate of funding down to minus 1%. But the unveiling of a new unconditional lending scheme set tongues wagging, with market participants debating which banks might use the money and what they might put it towards, writes Tyler Davies.
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    The European Central Bank could take action to counter the rise in the level of Euribor at its meeting on Thursday by either cutting its deposit rate or buying commercial paper from financial institutions to ease interbank lending, according to analysts.