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  • FIG
    Investors participating in Espírito Santo Financial Group’s buyback or equity exchange have tendered €317m of tier two and hybrid tier one securities, with a heavy skew towards the most subordinated paper.
  • FIG
    Espírito Santo Financial Group has extended by a day the deadline for bondholders to take up its cash buyback offer, after leading investors asked for extra time.
  • FIG
    Spain’s La Caixa is tapping retail investors for tier two capital, offering a five year bullet issue at 7.5%.
  • FIG
    Regulators, investors and banks have painted themselves into an undercapitalised corner. But this isn’t a way out of the present deleveraging and bad asset bind. Countercyclical requirements are a tough political sell but not a bad solution.
  • Variations in lending patterns could be a way for regulators to determine how banks should build up countercyclical capital buffers, but regulatory discretion would be needed when it comes to releasing them, a working paper from the Bank of International Settlements has suggested.
  • Some banks included and excluded from the first list of global systemically important institutions (G-SIFIs) on Friday came as a surprise, but analysts said overall the higher capital requirements could be met without too much upheaval.