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Whether MiFID II will affect the Schuldschein market is often discussed in Frankfurt. As collections of bilateral loans, Schuldscheine are exempt from the regulation — leading some to predict a boon for the asset class. But the optimism in some quarters is overdone. -
Last year was a strange one for European ABS, with negative yielding euro paper and the securitization of higher risk credit titillating the market, but with extraordinary monetary policy set to continue in the eurozone, and economic fundamentals improving across the continent, these trends will likely continue in 2018.
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The Italian banking system finished the year strongly with UniCredit making good progress on Project FINO (the bank's plan for asset disposal, named Failure Is Not an Option) and Genoa’s Banca Carige finalising the all-important capital raising part of its turn-around plan, but there is still a lot of work to be done to resolve Italy’s banking problems in 2018.
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Bank regulators are being encouraged to incentivise green investment through bank capital relief because others have been too slow to take up the fight against climate change. But capital requirements are not designed for this purpose.
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Asia’s green financing market has made great strides since issuance started to pick up two years ago, with 2017 seeing more regulators and issuers giving the asset class a push. But for all its impressive feats, the region’s green market is yet to come of age.
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Qatar's banks face a wall of maturities in 2018 and need the door to capital markets funding to be flung open for them. But it does not have to be the Qatar sovereign that does the opening.
