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Senior preferred debt has never been cheaper for banks — and it has regulatory benefits as well. While funding teams rush to meet bail-in targets, there's a value in keeping the old asset class alive. -
If BoE is to continue monetary stimulation beyond next year, it ought to look outside 'ordinary' QE, to what is popularly known as “helicopter money”.
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China’s A-share market has one of the largest pools of domestic investors in the world. So it’s no surprise Hong Kong’s exchange is desperate to link its primary IPO market with the mainland. While there could be plenty of benefits, the city’s regulator should think long and hard before opening itself up to a potentially uncontrollable flood of money.
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A move by Ford Credit to incorporate alternative data into its underwriting process will open up opportunities for underserved borrowers. More consumer lenders should follow suit if they want to reach, and more accurately assess, a growing segment of US consumers.
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Mario Draghi’s speech at Jackson Hole last week was never going to be earth-shattering but his complete silence on the issue of tapering the bank’s various asset purchase programmes managed to frustrate the market even more than had been expected.
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Myanmar’s equity capital market is set for fresh impetus as a handful of companies line up IPOs, with a member of the regulatory body predicting it will be the shot in the arm needed for a market that has slipped into obscurity this year. But although more issuers will be welcome, it is a change in the investor base that is really needed.
