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UK government can find direction by being determined on defence and green growth
Nine banks chosen to run £1.5bn borrowing programme
‘Notably better’ spread cements sovereign’s standing, thanks to triple-A rating and solid fiscal position
All as expected by the market, but lack of more details regarding bill issuance somewhat disappoints
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Del Canto joins Berman at agora — O'Higgins to retire from ICBC Standard — Miller becomes new IBCM head at Credit Suisse -
UniCredit has structured a a €7.75bn SME securitization called Impresa Two, which will allow the bank to free up a large book of Italian government bonds it had pledged to former brokerage subsidiary FinecoBank.
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The creation of a common eurozone safe asset was discussed in depth at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe’s (Afme) European Government Bond Conference on Wednesday, with the consensus that such a security was needed. But there were questions over how it would be structured.
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Luis de Guindos, vice-president of the European Central Bank, warned of over-reliance on monetary policy and called on governments to do their part in helping restore growth in the eurozone, in a speech on Thursday.
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Green quantitative easing is having a moment. As the European Central Bank restarts the ordinary brown kind of money printing, buying corporate and public sector bonds, a broad range of commentators, from left wing activists to BlackRock’s head of official institutions, argue that central banks ought to put their balance sheet power in play to green the world. But turning to the central banks is a counsel of despair. The technocrats should be a last resort; it is politicians who should be in the vanguard.
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Egypt is in market promoting a new deal: three tranches of benchmark dollar funding. Its 40 year tranche will be Egypt’s longest ever deal.
