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The Chinese regulator’s decision to kick-start a pilot scheme that will allow mainland-based holders of Hong Kong-listed stocks to convert them into H-shares is a big move, with many advantages for both stockholders and the city’s equity market. But it’s not time to crack open the champagne just yet. If the past is any example, progress will be slow at best. -
The cryptocurrency boom has been mostly confined to the corporate world. But, some of the more forward-thinking countries are planning on getting into the digital currency game. They should know better.
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The European Central Bank’s decision to exclude conditional pass through (CPT) covered bonds issued by non-investment grade issuers from its covered bond purchase programme (CBPP3) will constrain liquidity and credit where they are most needed, and is not necessarily justified by risk considerations.
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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.
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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.
