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Attempts to provide investors with regular, standardised and transparent covered bond collateral information are to be applauded. But a fundamental shift in how Spanish banks collect and report data is needed for prospective Cédulas buyers to benefit.
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Standard Chartered’s breaking of the Rmb1bn ($158.2m) barrier in ECP sold out of London may seem like small Tsingtao when compared with the size of the market as a whole. But the speed at which the issuer reached the milestone is testament to the flexibility of the ECP product and its ability to adapt, despite the slings and arrows it has faced over the last five years.
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Asia’s dollar markets are now suffering from the indigestion that has long been expected after a feeding frenzy earlier this year. The region’s domestic markets will now have to pick up some of the slack — and local debt liquidity is about to be put to the test.
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Asian loan bankers have had a torrid time this year, so they could be forgiven for now feeling a sense of schadenfreude at the expense of their peers on bond desks. They have watched their DCM colleagues poach business for much of the year — but they are ready to start bringing business back to their own desks.
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The recent cut in China’s reserve requirement ratio looks like bad news for the offshore renminbi market, pushing down funding costs at home at a time when the dim sum market is looking less and less attractive. But there are reasons to be optimistic about the future of the offshore renminbi debt market.
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Securitisation was blamed for causing the financial crisis that was triggered in 2007. But the technique must now be recognised for its potential to resuscitate fragile banks.