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Those watching Zambia bonds might think that the $1.25bn deal this week yielding 9.375% demonstrates a borrower on the ropes considering in 2012 it paid a coupon of 5.375% for its debut bond. In fact, this is a borrower showing smarts when the rest of the CEEMEA gang appear to have bottled it.
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The adding of FC Barcelona legend Pep Guardiola’s name to a list of pro-independence candidates for the Catalonia regional parliament elections in September is the latest in a long line of football/capital markets crossovers. Rarely do they end well.
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VTB's huge multi-tranche tender offer makes financial sense, but also demonstrates the pessimistic outlook for Russian growth at one of Russia’s biggest corporate lenders, despite this year’s rally in the country’s bonds.
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The UK’s conduct regulator may have lost its boss, but it’s still going from strength to strength, despite having less reason than ever before to exist at all.
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The unusual execution of some recent Chinese euro deals might not be everyone’s cup of tea, especially those participants who like to preach best market practices. But the doomsayers should not be so quick to condemn. What the Chinese have shown is the type of flexibility that is needed to get deals done. -
When a market doubles in size in a year, only to collapse by a quarter in a few weeks, a dose of panic is all but guaranteed. That’s exactly what has been happening with Chinese stocks, which went from boom to bust in the blink of an eye. But more surprising than the panicked reactions of Chinese regulators have been the many voices among international observers that the crisis spells doom for the RMB internationalisation process. That seems unlikely.
