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  • Capital market sentiment in the UK has weakened as the country awaits the detail of its scheduled departure from the EU, if a couple of indicators published this week are anything to go by. However, even a bad Brexit could be welcomed by corporate financiers.
  • Lloyds Bank's former head of loan markets, who subsequently became its global head of industrials and manufacturing, has left the bank.
  • ICG said on Friday that it had hired Blackstone’s Vijay Bharadia as chief financial and operating officer and as a director, subject to regulatory approval.
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    Sixteen companies, all leading green bond issuers, have formed a Corporate Forum on Sustainable Finance. Electricité de France was the prime mover. Xavier Girre, chief financial officer of EDF, tells GlobalCapital why the group is needed, why he supports a green supporting factor and how EDF’s sustainable finance strategy is developing.
  • S&P expects speculative grade default rates to rise to 2.6% in 2019, from 1.9% at the end of last year, thanks to tightening credit conditions, and slowing economic growth. But new accounting standards could also worsen the credit cycle.
  • The European Investment Bank, European Commission and EU member states are struggling to decide how to run InvestEU, a €47bn guarantee from the EU budget supposed to support €650bn in investment, as a successor to the Juncker plan. The Commission is seeking more direct control, while the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is also after a bigger role.