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The Greek debt burden, we are often told, is a trifle compared to the rest of Europe’s debt woes. But the Private Sector Initiative, first touted in the summer and designed to help banks and sovereigns alike through the crisis, is still causing headaches for participants. It threatens to devastate all attempts to restore confidence to markets.
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Defining liquid assets is always going to be a problem; the whole concept is flawed. The best regulators can do is use the Supreme Court’s standard on obscenity – “I know it when I see it”, in the words of Mr Justice Potter. Results otherwise are likely to prove perverse.
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Sovereign default in Europe is as old as finance. Bankers and states have been locked in a tussle for centuries. But who has got the best of it? Defaults damage lenders and borrowers, but both usually survive, if not in the same form then in the same spirit.
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Swiss francs has been a backwater for corporate bonds, but no longer. Displeased by the sovereign and banking crises, Swiss investors want corporate debt above all — and they are much more broad-minded about ratings than they used to be. Corporate treasurers should book a flight to Zurich, while the craze lasts.
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Forget the Mayan predictions, 2012 is not going to be the end of the world. Asian investors in particular have a lot to be optimistic about. But as the Asia Pacific region adjusts to changing economic conditions in other parts of the world, bond investors and issuers alike will have to change too.
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Forget the Mayan predictions, 2012 is not going to be the end of the world. Asian investors in particular have a lot to be optimistic about. But as the Asia Pacific region adjusts to changing economic conditions in other parts of the world, bond investors and issuers alike will have to change too.