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Financial institutions normally focus selling private placement deals in core currencies – euros and dollars — but BPCE has been busy diversifying to other currencies over the past weeks and its European peers should follow the bank’s initiative.
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The past week’s acrimonious face-off between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours is likely to be short-lived, say regional bankers and investors. But while the short term sell-off should soon turn into a chance to buy again, it is a useful chance for international investors to re-assess the political and economic risks of the region.
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Skyrocketing share prices combined with huge upside potential are making Chinese online game developers one of the hottest tickets in the equity market right now. But while the rewards of banking the next Candy Crush are certainly worth drooling over, the sector is beginning to look overheated. -
Russia's releasing of a request for proposals for a new bond was greeted by incredulity last Monday, as the timing of the RFP coincided with troops rolling into Crimea. At first glance it did not seem the best time for the country to be asking banks to pitch to help it raise its next slug of funding, but for several reasons it makes sense for Russia.
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The Bank of England’s Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) has finally caught on. The last quarter saw almost as much borrowing as the entire year previously, suggesting that the banks were right all along — the reason they weren’t lending was because nobody wanted to borrow.
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Emerging markets are only for experts, as events in Ukraine and Russia showed this week. Big returns and big deals do not change that: they just make the stakes higher. This week, Lenta proved yet again that no matter how compelling the story, or well-liked the deal, investors should bear in mind that any apparently huge reward is always matched by commensurate risk.
