Debate rages after Kookmin debuts Asian covered bonds

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Debate rages after Kookmin debuts Asian covered bonds

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Kookmin Bank raised $1bn from Asia’s first covered bond this week, opening an alternative funding structure for the region’s financial institutions and splitting opinion among bankers in the process.

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