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Cryptocurrencies are making inroads into traditional capital markets territory, and there is certainly money to be made, but, as Tuesday’s hard fork in Bitcoin shows, the market has a long way to go before it is sufficiently stable to be anything more than a curiosity. -
The European Banking Authority (EBA) is probably worrying too much when it says that banks could struggle to find buyers for their loss-absorbing debt.
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The Bank of England is right to warn of increasingly lax consumer lending standards, but until it sets the UK on a path to interest rate normalization, borrowing will remain too attractive an option for consumers to ignore.
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Anglian Water, priced a £250m eight year green bond on Monday. The size and tenor are unremarkable, and in a generation of sustainability and responsibility, a green bond should cause similarly few ripples. However, this was the first sterling-denominated green bond issued by a corporate borrower since 2015.
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Foreign investors look set to be allowed into Myanmar's capital markets soon, with new laws close to approval. The news is very welcome as growth has stalled in the country's markets since the first shares started trading on the Yangon exchange last year. However, any celebrations must be tempered by the experiences of Myanmar's neighbouring countries and it must take care to avoid similar pitfalls.
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The Panda bond market is having its best run of the year in terms of issuance volume and number of deals sealed. But a closer look at the market shows a distinct lack of long-term investors — a real risk at the heart of the Chinese financial system.
