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Mozambique’s debt crisis is the latest financial market hot potato to be passed around by its stakeholders with a series of statements that would not look out of place in an election campaign. But with the IMF in the country and Mozambique’s future ability to pay looking ever more likely, it is time to reach an agreement, restructure and move on.
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The loss of London as a cohesive financial centre would probably lead to a splintered European financial market, which would be a blow to the continent’s attractiveness for global financial firms. -
The Basel Committee was a wonderful idea when was first convened. But with bank liquidity measures becoming more difficult to codify and different jurisdictions going their own way on a number of issues, the idea behind a united global banking standard might soon become irrelevant.
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What will happen to share prices and bond returns if the climate warms by 1.5°C, 2°C, 3°C? You don’t know, and neither does anyone else. But these scenarios are probable. It’s time we worked it out — and a decision before the G20 next weekend could make a huge difference.
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China’s move to open up its domestic bond market to more foreign investment is being rightly applauded. But investors should be wary of the risks in a market that still has serious problems with governance and disclosure.
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Market conditions should be set by tangible data points. Pricing trillions of dollars of financial products based on the estimates of a small elite of submitters, however tightly regulated these days, is no longer tenable, and a change is due.
