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The UK’s Islamic banks have good grounds for fury at missing out on the UK sovereign sukuk mandate. But for their own sakes, they must keep faith that the deal is a dress rehearsal for something bigger, and turn up in size to buy the paper.
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Now even the European Central Bank is having a go at the poor ratings agencies for having the wrong opinions on ABS ratings. More investors should be taking the decision into their own hands, but to do so they need greater transparency. -
Last week, the UK government, fired up with the success of the Banking Standards Review, the Independent Commission on Banking, the interest rate swap misselling review, the payment protection insurance review, and the Royal Bank of Scotland restructuring group review, and delighted with the progress of the Co-op review, the review of foreign bank branch capital holdings, the review on variable bank leverage ratios and the review of stress testing proposals, decided to launch another financial markets review.
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If companies fund in bond markets, what happens when bond investors dump the asset class? Federal Reserve officials are crying that something must be done. Should bond investors have to pay exit fees to pull money out of funds? There have been worse ideas, but not recently.
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Things have started looking up for Asian yield play investors this week, as Jinmao Investments started marketing a HK$3.39bn ($437m) hospitality business trust that will pay out up to 9%. If it goes ahead, it will be the first high-yielding IPO in the region since January, as issuers finally wake up to changed investor expectations.
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The UK’s Islamic banks have good grounds for fury at missing out on the UK sovereign sukuk mandate. But for their own sakes, they must keep faith that the deal is a dress rehearsal for something bigger, and turn up in size to buy the paper.
