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Home to the world’s largest capital market, the US has what it takes to redraw the global heat map of renminbi internationalisation (RMBi) now that it has been awarded a clearing bank and the world’s second largest RMB investment quota. Yet this potential could be squandered by the upcoming presidential elections unless market forces prevail. -
The coming market rush to comply with margin rules on uncleared swaps will be a big challenge in itself, but regulators need to think hard about the unintended repo risks they are creating by requiring collateral building at breakneck speed.
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Loans and Schuldscheine have always sat side by side. With a similar lender base and documentation, the two seem almost interchangeable. This year banks have been capitalising on that similarity and driving issuance to new heights, but they should not get carried away — restructuring a Schuldschein is a lot more painful than with a loan.
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The reputation of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as a feared watchdog took a hit last week when a US Court of Appeals ruled against the regulator in a suit brought against it by PHH Mortgage. But opponents of the agency should not be confident that it has been completely defanged.
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Goldman Sachs’s new online lending platform Marcus, which was launched last Thursday, has to prove itself in an industry where the ability to scale and the retention of a loyal customer base determines who gets to stay in the game.
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Doosan Bobcat and its IPO advisers were left red-faced after the company was forced to pull its W2.4tr ($2.2bn) float in South Korea last week. The deal is making a quick comeback and the leads have done what they can to turn the situation around. But the incident serves as an object lesson in how not to do an IPO.
