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Corporate bond sales have slumped compared with a stellar 2009. While few are losing much sleep yet over that, doubts are being cast whether the much-hyped phenomenon of a shift away from loans to the bond market will truly be a lasting one.
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If only size matters, then China’s banks could be about to take over the Asian debt markets. But there’s more to it than that and the prospect remains little more than an interesting possibility.
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The UK financial services secretary on Tuesday fired a broadside at the fund management industry and its complicit role in giving ECM bankers ever-higher fees for taking ever-lower risks. Coming less than a year after a period of extreme turbulence, that appears too harsh a judgement.
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The inquest into the disastrous performance of the Eu8bn five year bond sold by Greece last week is rumbling on. Greece and its lead managers made too many execution mistakes, say some. Hedge funds destroyed a perfect trade, retort others. But it’s not a deal at fault, it’s a lack of trust.
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When Lehman Brothers collapsed it had around $25bn of unrealised losses on illiquid assets. But after being dismembered in bankruptcy, shareholders and creditors have taken a $150bn hit. Could there be a better way to deal with failed banks?
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The first glimmer of a Middle Eastern loan since Dubai’s debt crisis in November emerged last week. But it will take more than a blowout deal from Mubadala, one of the region’s best credits, to open up the market for other borrowers.