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The ring-fencing of investment banks from retail lenders is a pivotal moment for the UK’s financial services industry. The measures will help appease the public, but unless investors and issuers are given certainty about how bail-in will be implemented, funding markets will remain closed.
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US private placements are thriving. Combining many virtues of bond buyers and banks, the investors will listen to credit stories the mainstream market won’t touch. If only some of this common sense would rub off on the public bond market.
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It has been a difficult end to the year for Asian capital markets bankers, but they can look forward to buoyant market conditions over the next few years. Global banks will continue their scramble for Asian business, so it is high time that local banks strengthened their own teams.
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The measures Draghi announced last Thursday aren’t bad, but he could have done much more. A few simple changes could mean a lot more liquidity for the European banking system. The only loser would be the ECB’s pride.
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What’s in a name? Quite a lot, as it turns out. The first rouble denominated bond issued by a foreign company has been unhappily linked with the infamous Kalashnikov machine gun. A campaign is already underway to rebrand it.
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Sukuk may not be able to offer any sort of quick fix for Europe’s funding crisis, but South Africa’s decision last week to push ahead with a sovereign deal offers a much more encouraging vision for how the Islamic market could develop.