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Foreign banks can now get a licence to act as lead underwriters for all deals in China’s domestic interbank bond market, signalling a further opening up of the Mainland’s financial market. But these licences will only make a marginal difference to a bank’s business. -
To make a real difference, green finance needs to prove it is tough on dirty companies. How can the sector look at the fires ravaging the Amazon region and still take comfort in having embraced a bond issued to finance cattle purchases there?
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China introduced its new benchmark rate, the loan prime rate (LPR), over the weekend, with the first rate published on Tuesday. The reform, which aims to help companies lower their funding costs, is likely to boost the onshore market but will make the already slow offshore market even more difficult.
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Sanctions on a country’s sovereign debt do not typically herald a windfall of fee-earning bond market business in that country, but Russia may prove an exception. If the sovereign distorts prices in the domestic market, Russian corporates and banks may look to the international market to borrow instead.
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Italy is a country of fast cars and has some some terrific companies for investors to invest in, but buyers must always keep in mind that political instability is as quintessentially Italian — and unpredictable — as an Alfa Romeo. It doesn't mean they cannot enjoy the ride, however.
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The US Treasury is considering issuing 50 or 100 year bonds. It's not the only sovereign looking into whether the time is right to take advantage of investors' desperation for yield by locking in low rates with ultra-long dated funding. Indeed, this could be the dawning of the golden age of the ultra-long government bond.
