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Several covered bond issuers have removed the swaps in their covered bond programmes, in the face of onerous regulatory obligations. This has improved their funding efficiency and given investors a less risky, more transparent, and potentially higher yielding product. Others should follow.
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The UK moved quickly, and a long way, on bank capital, but apparently it hasn’t done enough. In a year when the Basel Committee is supposed to be finally finishing its own capital rules, do we really need more uncertainty?
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South Korea has been one of the most active Asian equity capital markets in 2016 with high expectations that IPO volumes this year will be its largest on record. The figures are reassuring, but the KRX appears hell bent on wooing southeast Asian issuers to its stock exchange. Focusing on its strengths instead would be far more fruitful. -
The Reserve Bank of India has given the nod for infrastructure companies to access foreign currency debt for shorter maturities than originally allowed — making a rare U-turn just four months after putting a new framework together. The RBI may have got it wrong first time around but it’s comforting that it lost no time in setting things right.
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Nomura announced on Tuesday that it was joining the investment bank restructuring party, with deep staffing cuts and the closure of several business lines in London and the US.
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The Panama Papers may be making UK politicians fall over one another to print their tax returns, but those at the top of the banking industry should be concerned about becoming the next to be under scrutiny.
