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Indian borrowers that tapped the international loan market this year found mixed responses — with their deals either sailing through without a hitch or struggling to gain traction among banks. This sends an ominous signal to companies preparing offshore loans for next year. -
Collateralised loan obligations (CLOs) are on trial with regulators and central banks around the world, standing accused of being the financial instrument most likely to cause the next financial crisis. The prosecution, however, needs to look at the the facts.
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Saudi Aramco’s decision to make its IPO a local affair, with no international marketing, is a lacklustre end to what is nonetheless a huge capital markets event. Unrealistic objectives and hype have taken the shine off a monumental deal.
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Foreign banks hoping to break into China’s capital markets will have an open invitation at the end of next year, when final restrictions on their ownership of securities houses are removed. They will have some small successes with secondary trading but muscling in on primary capital markets will prove expensive ─ and risky.
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Green quantitative easing is having a moment. As the European Central Bank restarts the ordinary brown kind of money printing, buying corporate and public sector bonds, a broad range of commentators, from left wing activists to BlackRock’s head of official institutions, argue that central banks ought to put their balance sheet power in play to green the world. But turning to the central banks is a counsel of despair. The technocrats should be a last resort; it is politicians who should be in the vanguard.
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The European Central Bank let markets look under the bonnet of its new Corporate Sector Purchase Programme on Monday, and the only thing the raw data has confirmed is that omnipotent central banks like to move in mysterious ways seemingly at odds with what the market wants or needs.
