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The sustainable finance movement, when looking at banks and insurance companies, has so far focused mainly on assets rather than liabilities. But insuring or offering deposits for a particular activity is just as important as lending to or investing in it. -
The meeting between US president Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping during the G20 summit resulted in a trade war ceasefire, giving capital markets a temporary breather from the threat of a fresh tariff outbreak. Asia’s debt and equity issuers should pounce on the opportunity.
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The Turkish government is mulling plans to print asset backed securities against the country's banks' mortgage stock. Some are calling the idea a “bad bank in disguise”. It isn't, but Turkey will need one.
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Speculation is rife in the government bond markets that the European Central Bank will deploy special monetary policy to support Italian BTPs. Aside from being a ridiculous idea — Italy has got itself into this mess with its own budget proposals, not because it is in a financial crisis — such support brings with it yet more rules that Italy would have to abide by in order to receive the help.
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UBI Banca includes financing for "religious entities" as an eligible category under its new social bonds framework, listing eligible organisations as those “aiming at reducing exclusions and inequalities”. But it would take a miracle for the world’s largest religions — with their central tenets of ‘we’re special and you’re not’ — to meet that requirement, raising the question of who actually qualifies.
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Russia is doing it again — for the second time this year it has picked yet another politically unpalatable week to print a sovereign bond. It seems to be sticking a middle finger up to the west as it rolls around in cash and shows off the access the country has to capital markets. But if that was the motivation behind this issue, it has not accomplished its goals.
