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The shine has come off the offshore renminbi market. Funding costs are rising, bond investors are posturing and some analysts now think that renminbi deposits in Hong Kong will fall this year, after an almost unbroken growth streak for the past two years. That is bad news for loans bankers.
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The chief executive of RBS has been hounded into giving up a bonus that he had been awarded. No one — least of all the UK government — should be proud.
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Moody's reckons the ECB's long term refinancing operation is credit negative for Europe's banks. It's hard to square this with the relief it is providing the sector, but the agency is right to warn of the dangers of relying on central bank funding.
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US regulators rightly acted to boost money market funds’ resilience to shocks after the Reserve Primary Fund “broke the buck” in 2008. But given the funds’ performance during the crises of 2011, further risk reduction proposals are unnecessary and could be detrimental to regulators’ intentions.
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The shine appears to have come off the offshore renminbi market. Funding costs are rising, bond investors are posturing and some analysts now think that renminbi deposits in Hong Kong will actually fall this year, after an almost unbroken growth streak for the last two years. That is bad news for loans bankers.
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Debt bankers tried their best last year to drum up demand for synthetic currency bonds, but after the lacklustre performance of a few early deals combined with a big spike in investor caution, the market quickly fizzled out. Is there greater hope for the synthetic currency market this year? There is reason to think not. It might just be even worse.