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  • The European Commission has fined three banks for breaching European Union competition rules in trading SSA dollar bonds in the secondary market, it said on Wednesday.
  • Danmarks Nationalbank, the Danish central bank, has hired a new head of monetary policy operations and government debt.
  • Damien Aellen has been promoted to co-head of Credit Suisse’s Swiss franc bond syndicate desk.
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    Market participants will embark in the coming weeks on the difficult task of working out how to use the European Union’s sustainable finance Taxonomy, after the first criteria were published this week. In doing so, they will be conscious that the smooth tide of green finance is now breaking against the hard reality of power politics and resistance by fossil fuel industries — a clash that is rocking the Taxonomy’s credibility, writes Jon Hay.
  • The long-running debate in the European Union about how to optimise its development finance effort and strengthen its role in sub-Saharan Africa is tending towards the most basic of the possible options: closer collaboration between the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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    The detailed rules for the EU Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities look set to come into force, as the European Commission published them on Wednesday, after weeks of intense lobbying and negotiation that had raised the prospect of them being delayed again. Gas will not enter the Taxonomy for now and will be dealt with in separate legislation, but nuclear power could enter the Taxonomy later this year, alarming greens.