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Italy’s banks and politicians are worried about the European Central Bank’s non-performing loan crackdown. They are right to worry — but the answer is bankruptcy reform.
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Chinese issuers and investors are likely to be largely absent from the dollar bond market for the next few weeks, as the country prepares for a crucial meeting of Communist Party officials. The slowdown will be a good chance for issuers from elsewhere in the region to tap the market — and demonstrate whether Asia’s bond market can remain standing without Chinese liquidity. -
Mongolia’s macho new prime minister Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh is taking the reins of a country that has suffered from excessive debt, a woeful credit rating and a corruption scandal which felled his predecessor. But despite the country’s struggles, his best policy approach may be simply to maintain the current course.
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Once again, fintech was a hot topic at the annual ABS East conference in Miami Beach last month. But unlike in the past, the focus was not on the newest trend among marketplace lenders or payments companies, which are looking more like run of the mill banking institutions, but on how technology will enhance, digitize and eventually automate financial services.
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The Wild West days are not over in the cryptocurrency market, but the shoots of a more civilised and reliable market are beginning to poke through.
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For politicians looking for policy tools, bank capital regulations are a blank canvas. But using prudential regulation to direct lending to favoured causes lacks transparency, obscures difficult decisions and piles up risks.
