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Over the weekend, Harris County in Texas voted in favour of issuing bonds to pay for flood defences, a year after Hurricane Harvey caused terrible damage in the Houston region. It is part of a wider tussle over who bears the risk of catastrophes — and the capital markets are at the forefront of the discussion. -
China’s impending Panda bond framework offered the country a chance to sort out a messy approval process that deters all but the most dedicated issuers. Instead, the country doubled-down on chaos.
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China’s peer-to-peer lenders are once again staring into the abyss, following a string of recent scandals and a new crackdown by regulators. As the noose tightens around the sector, IPO-hopefuls like Weidai should tread with caution.
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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has frequently used FX and equity market investors as straw men on which to blame Turkey’s economic woes, rather than his own government’s economic mismanagement, a claim given veracity now by the petulant tweeting of US president Donald Trump.
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Amid the chaos in Turkey, bankers are pitching bond buy-back opportunities to the country's beleaguered banks. Many argue that those in a position to take them up should be looked upon favourably by investors. The problem is, those investors might not even notice.
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Initiatives by US president Donald Trump to slow the corporate earnings reporting cycle are aiming for the wrong target. Less frequent reporting might be helpful to real estate developers with a penchant for bankruptcy, but three-monthly numbers are adequate for mainstream capital markets. That doesn’t mean, however, that the system is perfect.
