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International and regional lenders are once again opening their wallets to Dubai, the debt laden emirate. But they would do well to heed the lessons from the last three years or they could be doomed to repeat them.
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Australian investors have a deserved reputation for being fussier about what they buy than their European counterparts — that’s why the Kangaroo market has traditionally been dominated by the cream of the SSA crop. This is starting to change.
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For all its record-breaking size, Petrobras’s $11bn bond has set surprisingly few hearts racing. Bankers hardly seem shocked by the scale of the deal. It simply confirms what many people already suspected EM was capable of.
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Moody’s sudden downgrade of Co-op Bank gave investors a very nasty shock, turning their senior debt into junk in one fell swoop. Bankers insist that this is an isolated case — but in reality it shows that investors are ignoring bail-in risk.
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It is not just the catalogue of bank misdemeanors that is putting graduates off the industry. The historic inability of banks and bankers to articulate the good they can do is as much to blame.
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The Canadian dollar has been out of favour with SSA issuers since the crisis, with issuance still meagre compared to 2007. Local investors remain focused on local public sector issuers. But a spate of fresh deals in the currency offers issuers some encouragement. They should ignore the locals — it’s an international market, after all.