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IRB InvIT Fund brought India’s first infrastructure investment trust to market last week, making history with its Rp46.5bn ($727.4m) IPO. Books closed with demand for nearly 9x the shares available, in a huge boon for the asset class. But while the trade sets a high bar, future issuers need not follow its template. -
As Brexit appears to be a damp squib, at least for now, the Bank of England should consider ending its Term Funding Scheme to bring UK mortgage funding back to normal levels.
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European regulators are finally on the road to creating suspension mechanisms similar to those used in the US, an evolution that should not stop at clearing.
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The traditional reasons that issuers pay investment banks are being eroded by regulation. But the staggeringly costly compliance and back office infrastructure is increasingly valuable.
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The Greek government wants to return to the bond markets this year as soon as its latest round of bail-out negotiations ends — something that moved a step forward this week after the country agreed a deal with its creditors on a range of fiscal and structural reforms. But one look at where its outstanding debt is trading should make the government think twice before rushing back to the capital markets.
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Senior preferred could prove a much more enduring threat to the viability of the covered bond market than the targeted longer-term refinancing operation (TLTRO) or the covered bond purchase programme (CBPP3).
