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European banks, especially the Italians, need to solve their non-performing loan problem, agrees everyone from the European Central Bank to the least informed finance hack out there. But the revelations coming out of Royal Bank of Scotland’s restructuring unit show it’s not always a pleasant process.
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The ship has sailed on establishing a common EU approach to bank creditor hierarchies in insolvency. European authorities need to drop the now redundant pursuit of harmony in the pressing pursuit of clarity.
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With pioneers of peer-to-peer lending tapping more institutional investors and competing to claim how boring their products are, the hype in alternative lending may be fading. That's good news, but only for those that have already reached scale. -
The business model of marketplace lender SoFi can sometimes sound like the subject of a grim corporate dystopia. The fintech start-up is not only in the business of selling loans — it wants to bring millennials on board from early adulthood until death, through relationships and home-building.
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Vietnam’s equity capital markets is peculiar in that doing an IPO and listings are viewed as two separate events, leading to companies, particularly state-owned ones, often being in no hurry to start trading their shares on the stock exchanges. There’s no simple solution, but a shake-up of the market is well overdue.
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Attitudes towards Russian credits have miraculously softened this year and the friendly new outlook has even filtered to the loan market, as last week Norilsk Nickel signed the first sizeable unsecured dollar loan since the EU and US imposed their sanctions. But loans bankers would do well to remember what drove them away from Russian deals in the first place.
