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Part of the job of a financial regulator is to protect the general public from itself by keeping dangerous financial instruments on the top shelf, behind the cookie jar. But the rules don’t make sense.
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The perception of the Swiss investor as exhaustively prudent is becoming ever more inaccurate. With borrowers of all stripes making inroads into the Swiss franc bond market, and buyers receptive to credits from across the world, the natives are more intrepid than other markets give them credit for. -
The Republic of Indonesia’s maiden green sukuk last week was a landmark for green finance, becoming the first green sovereign issue in Asia, and one of just a handful globally. Indonesia deserves to be lauded for its efforts, but it’s too soon to judge the country by its one green financing exercise — especially as the nation is far from environmentally friendly.
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Disallowing the use of senior bail-in debt as collateral at the ECB has alarmed some parts of the market — but discouraging banks from buying other banks' debt should be applauded.
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Since cryptocurrencies started to go legit, many in the market assumed legitimate uses for the technology would marginalise criminal uses that characterised bitcoin’s early development. This was naïve. Venezuela’s foray into the sector show that avoiding the constraints of the mainstream financial system remains at the heart of the cryptocurrency value proposition.
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Albaraka Turk scored a solid first last week when it issued Turkey’s first Basel III compliant additional tier one bond, but while this marks progress, it will take one of the country’s larger banks to establish a true benchmark.
