StanChart, Crédit Ag, Barclays take early lead in capital race

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StanChart, Crédit Ag, Barclays take early lead in capital race

Banks scrambled this week to get ahead in the race to secure regulatory capital, with Crédit Agricole pricing an innovative Eu1.25bn lower tier two issue, Standard Chartered pulling the trigger on a £3.3bn rights issue, and market talk suggesting that Barclays might be engineering a new instrument of its own.

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