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Emerging market bond deals are, by their nature, a riskier bet than many others. Serbia’s recent deal has tanked, but with no plans to return any time soon and a capricious market to navigate, it had nothing to lose. Investors and the bond’s arrangers have not been so lucky.
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GDF Suez’s draw-down of some of its revolving credit facilities should make lenders question the pricing differential between drawn and undrawn funding. They also ought to have a good think about the value of relationships to the loans business.
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As a piece of political theatre it couldn’t have gone better. The ICB recommends ring-fencing amid a flood of “casino banking” rhetoric, then in the very same week UBS illustrates exactly how careless investment banks can be. But arguments about bank regulation should look past the latest scandal.
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GDF Suez’s draw-down of some of its revolving credit facilities should make lenders question the pricing differential between drawn and undrawn funding. They also ought to have a good think about the value of relationships to the loans business.
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Emerging market investors are increasingly focusing on the eurozone crisis. And with good reason, as those events are moving the bonds of the emerging markets. But traditional company-specific risks also remain high. Investors and analysts need to be careful to avoid the distractions of the macro picture elsewhere.
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Korean regulators have occasionally appeared heavy-handed with domestic banks, but recent turmoil shows that they are right to keep a tight grip on the country’s financial system. With Korean banks so reliant on foreign currency, the regulator should be more aggressive than ever.