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Housing Development Finance Corp added some flavour to the debt market last week, selling the first Masala bond from an Indian corporate. The deal broke new ground, opening a new fundraising channel for the country's borrowers. But it also raises questions about the long-term development of the asset class. -
The latest $1.25bn underwritten loan for the UK’s Melrose may look like a Brexit-defying success. But in reality, the firm is a lender’s darling and this doesn’t necessarily mean the gates are open wide for all UK loans.
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Nobody likes it when markets seize up, but the post-Brexit plight of the UK commercial property funds shows markets working well, not badly. It also demonstrates why markets, not banks, are the best providers of financing.
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Mozambique’s debt story has been unravelling since the disclosure of some $1.4bn of additional public loans in April, but if anyone thought this painful tale of investor woe was enough to dampen appetite towards Africa, they’d be completely wrong.
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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s updated securitization framework shows strong alignment with the European Commission on risk weights — but adverse discussions in the European Parliament mean that the chances creating the elusive 'level playing field' for high quality securitizations looks slim.
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Asia’s infatuation with cornerstone investors is showing no signs of letting up, as issuers continue to hand over record amounts of stock in their IPOs. The practice has come in for some criticism, but the naysayers are short sighted. Cornerstone demand, for better or worse, is what the market needs right now.
