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The public bond market needs a Gulf reopener with transparent pricing
Turbulent market conditions of the Middle East war have pushed bond issuers and investors to try new things
A swift response is tempting, but lenders should avoid kneejerk reaction
Talk of de-dollarisation has evaporated. The dollar market remains the undisputed king of financing
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The European Council hopes to charge towards banking union later this week, “sprinting” ahead with plans to make the ECB the single supervisor. But it should not press on blindly: a well-designed banking union is far preferable to one thrown together in haste.
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The EFSF is over the hump of what could prove a tough task of raising €11bn in the fourth quarter. But did it get the pricing right with its latest five year?
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Japan’s residential mortgage-backed securities market was effectively taken over several years ago by a local housing agency. This has worked well for homebuyers, but not for banks. It is time the government pushed more banks back into the RMBS market.
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It's hard to make banks adhere to CMBS disclosure standards if investors are happy to ignore them. The buyside only has itself to blame for not insisting on proper transparency.
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Asian debt bankers are closely watching a leadership transition in China, hoping that the next generation of leaders will announce new stimulus measures. But it is Europe’s problems, not China’s solutions, that will determine the growth of Asia’s bond markets for years to come.
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Loans are all about relationships. AAR is taking a tough route by testing lenders to see if it gets on better with banks than the Russian state does.