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  • Italy published its much anticipated green bond framework on Thursday, ahead of a debut green BTP later in 2021.
  • UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has proposed a “British Recovery Bond” — a retail government issue that would be used to finance SME lending to help kick-start the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. It can be tempting to dismiss such measures as political posturing, but there are some genuine advantages to the proposal, and it deserves its day.
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    SSA bond supply dwindled last week meaning an outstanding performance from Hamburger Hochbahn’s debut bond, which was six times subscribed and managed a huge 26bp tightening from initial price thoughts, weighed heavily on primary market indicators.
  • ECB president Christine Lagarde said the ECB is “closely monitoring the evolution of longer-term nominal bond yields” in her speech at the opening plenary session of the European semester. The rise in eurozone government bond yields subsided during her speech.
  • HSBC has reorganised the management of its public sector debt capital markets business following the departure of Frédéric Gabizon at the end of March after a 35 year stint at the bank.
  • Bond Origination Technologies (Bots), a new tech company that aims to automate pricing indications in the primary debt capital markets, has made two hires as it prepares to launch its first live pilot in the second quarter.