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Europe’s faltering on margin rules for uncleared swaps this year has, for some market participants, proved that the trans-Atlantic regulatory rollout has reached breaking point – a reckoning that, perversely, could buy the market some relief in the form of a slowdown in the regulatory pace.
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Private executions, club deals, non-disclosure agreements and bilateral executions all have their place in the arsenals of syndicate desks and issuers, particularly in the securitization market. But taken together, they are harmful to the market.
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A Bank of England paper has mooted the idea of GDP-linked bonds as a means of reining in governments’ ballooning debt to GDP ratios.
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Royal Industries Indonesia rattled the loans market last week when it failed to pay the first principal instalment on a $380m deal signed in June 2015. The incident has caused consternation among participating banks, with many being quick to blame the bookrunners on the trade. But this should be a wake-up call to lenders, who need to re-examine their internal approval procedures. -
Investors in non-performing loan securitizations are a rare find, so issuers which can move early might be better placed to grab some of the limited capital available.
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Far from seeing Tullett Prebon’s voice-hybrid push as a last stand of the dinosaurs against robot supremacy, those firms going all-in on electronic trading would do well to re-examine their own longevity.
