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When staff complain, they deserve a fair hearing, not a wall of silence
Benin reaped the rewards of its sukuk debut last week, and will do so for years to come
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French courts threw out contractual rights when they ruled to protect the owners of the Coeur Défense tower from their creditors. But the answer to this isn’t self-righteous indignation. It’s to beware of any market that’s never seen a default.
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Public sector debt markets, while better than they were in December, remain fragile and must be handled with care. Fade’s pulled five year bond is an early warning for SSA borrowers not to push pricing too far.
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Another year, another BTA restructuring, and this time around, creditors are adamant that it will lead to a reassessment of attitudes to Kazakh debt. That's an understandable reaction, but it looks unlikely.
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The disparity between the borrowing costs of identically-rated European companies from different jurisdictions has ballooned. The gap reflects the contrasting funding conditions for domestic lenders rather than a changed credit outlook at borrowers, but it may not last long.
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Indications that Luxembourg and Ireland could issue sovereign sukuk in the coming months have galvanised London’s Islamic market participants to demand a UK government rethink on the asset class. The Treasury appears no closer than it did a year ago to meeting this call, but the market looks perfectly primed.
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There are tentative signs that underwriting is returning in emerging market loans. If the trend becomes established, it would mark a big change from the wariness of 2011.