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The loan market used to pride itself on being the first port of call for any borrower wanting to fund an M&A deal. But that notion has been shattered over the last year and, judging by transactions from Prudential and Merck this week, is still some way off being realised again.
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It must be tempting for Indian officials to link the success of last week’s Rural Electrification Corp follow-on offering to the structure they designed for the deal. It certainly worked better than a similar deal a couple of weeks earlier for NTPC.
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The Basel Committee has started to publicly worry about a backlash from the industry over its bank capital reforms. It’s a legitimate concern but leaving the hybrid capital market in limbo is not the way for it to win friends.
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UK lenders face a huge challenge in funding their mortgage books over the next few years. Securitisations will provide key indicators as to how difficult that hurdle will be to overcome. So far the signs have been mixed, but Santander’s announcement of what many would call the first true UK RMBS since the crisis began will provide the clearest answer yet.
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The Basel Committee has started to publicly worry about a backlash from the industry over its bank capital reforms. It’s a legitimate concern but leaving the hybrid capital market in limbo is not the way for it to win friends.
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UK mortgage lenders and rating agencies have woken up to the threat of £319bn of state-supported borrowing that will need refinancing in the three years from 2011. But pleas for further state aid will likely go unheeded: the securitisation industry has already had two years to put its house in order while the government has its own fiscal problems to worry about.