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The Scottish government’s plan to keep sterling as its currency if the country votes for independence shows a shocking naivety about how the potential new sovereign will be able to access the capital markets.
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China’s Sinopec has given the Asia loans market a breath of fresh air by taking its $2.5bn deal into general, after recent months saw a spate of blue-chip names opt for large clubs. The syndicated market is far from dead — but if Asian banks want to stay in the game, the region’s loans need more syndication.
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China’s Sinopec has given the Asia loans market a breath of fresh air by taking its $2.5bn deal into general, after recent months saw a spate of blue-chip names opt for large clubs. The syndicated market is far from dead — but if Asian banks want to stay in the game, the region’s loans need more syndication.
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With the launch this week of three private sector green bonds, by Bank of America, Electricité de France and Vasakronan, the market has unmistakably arrived. But it will only have real economic value — and therefore value for the environment — when green bonds start to be priced tighter than the issuer’s ordinary debt.
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Sweden's finance minister, Anders Borg may want the country's banks to rely less upon the covered bond market and more upon growing their own deposit bases, but if Swedish banks were to abandon a market that has served them so well for so long, it could do more harm than good.
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According to Barclays analysts, EM bonds are going to have a bumper year for issuance next year. But that flies in the face of every warning that syndicate and origination officials are giving about the likely fragility of the EM primary bond market in 2014.