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  • Italy took a radical approach to its latest BTP Italia in order to stop the bond reaching the epic size of its predecessors, but it failed to work. With a redemption profile that is starting to resemble the Dolomites, the sovereign needs to sharpen its funding tools further.
  • Banking funding rules should have diversity and stability in mind, and steer clear of favouring one funding format over another. But a Basel consultation document on the Net Stable Funding Ratio published this month, promotes the exact opposite, and will make bank funding less stable.
  • Italy took a radical approach to its latest BTP Italia in order to stop the bond reaching the epic size of its predecessors, but it didn’t work. With a redemption profile that is starting to resemble the Dolomites, the sovereign needs to sharpen its funding tools further.
  • The much heralded Asian M&A boom appears to be finally underway as leading names including Dongfeng Motor Corp, Lenovo and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp snap up companies. The willingness of banks to lend funds is driving acquisition momentum and with the economic environment perking up, it’s time for companies to splash out.
  • At $1.5bn, the order book for Turkiye Finans’s $500m sukuk return on Tuesday was not to be sniffed at. But demand didn't reach the dizzy heights of this year’s other dollar sukuk deals, and that is thanks to the market’s last issuer, Damac Real Estate Development.
  • High yield issuers just keep on flexing their muscles, showing investors where the power in the market lies. The latest totem to fall to the extreme supply-demand imbalance is call protection, now down to a new low of 1.5 years.