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European leveraged loan issuers expect the good times to keep rolling this autumn. But issuers considering cross-border transactions should be cautious. Domestic supply is building in the US and this could mean lenders push back on margins. -
Islamic investors should not allow political turmoil to derail Pakistan’s plan to return to the sukuk market.
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The markets may have an opinion on Scottish independence — but the No campaign has been acting like that matters more than anything else. Capital markets should follow the will of the people, not lead it.
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India broke with its traditional instincts last week by scrapping a restriction on retail investors buying Basel III bonds. Not only is the U-turn in attitude towards retail protection startling given the country's past attitude to that investor base, but it could also be reckless.
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Cynicism is infectious, especially in the capital markets, and it has been easy to sneer at Europe’s investment banks. Lacking scale in the muscle-bound world of bond trading, and hobbled by scandal and regulation, the prevailing narrative has been that they should go big or go home.
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Spain showed the rewards of being creative with its longest ever bond of the euro era on Monday, chopping €1bn from its funding needs with a deal that will mature when the eurozone debt crisis is a matter for history books, not newspapers. With more dovish measures possibly on the horizon at this week’s European Central Bank meeting, issuers could soon find that such deals are the best way to add some duration to their debt profiles.
