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Public sector agency debt is often treated as an attractively high-yielding proxy for sovereign paper — whether or not a sovereign promises to stand behind the issues with a guarantee. But an issuer's branding seems to matter more than the hard facts of credit quality. -
The Banco Popular resolution told investors how regulators and the market will treat additional tier one (AT1) bonds in times of stress. They liked the answer enough to continue buying — right up to giving Nordea a 3.5% coupon.
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The Senate last week confirmed Joseph Otting as head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), but his background in community banking raises questions for the future of online lender-bank partnerships, and raises new questions about the proposed special purpose bank charter for marketplace lenders.
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The European Commission’s Expert Group has offered its suggestions on how to improve corporate bond markets, and they’re pretty good. But large companies, not SMEs, will be the big winners.
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The coming of bitcoin futures could open the floodgates for Wall Street money, rapidly multiplying the global financial system’s exposure to the original cryptocurrency. But the bitcoin community is not united about what the asset should be and, as a result, it remains uniquely volatile.
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The spat between the European Parliament and the ECB over accounting standards is ugly – and mostly unnecessary. Accounting matters, but it’s not real life. What matters is cold hard cash.
