Banks and their sovereigns: in each other’s debt

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Banks and their sovereigns: in each other’s debt

More and more banks find their fates in capital markets entwined with their sovereigns’ credits and reputations. There have always been links between them but the number of relationships where this now governs financing costs and spread performance has risen sharply. Ralph Sinclair asks whether banks can ever unhook themselves from the sovereigns.

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