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New investment for strategic infrastructure across Europe and around the world, including road, rail, ports, inland waterways, and airports, were amongst nearly EUR 10 billion of new lending approved this week by the Board of Europe’s long-term lending institution, the European Investment Bank.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, introduced an innovative financial instrument to expand the availability of Turkish lira financing, becoming the first multilateral institution to issue lira-denominated discount notes.

Unigestion, an institutional asset manager that focuses on providing its clients with a tailor-made range of risk-managed investment solutions, announces the launch of its Private Debt Allocator tool, which identifies private debt opportunities to exactly match clients’ investment objectives.

Fitch Ratings warns of the temptation that fixed income fund managers may have in current market conditions to overreach for yield, potentially loosening credit selectivity and leading to excessive credit and liquidity risk-taking.

Lyxor Asset Management (Lyxor) announces the launch of an ETF that offers investors access to EUR-denominated corporate bonds with the highest sub-investment grade credit rating in order to offer a potential higher yield.