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Fitch’s decision to review its approach to rating structured notes is the result of fear of regulators and investors’ lawyers. Any changes the agency might be able to make are unlikely to help the market.
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The global credit default swap market’s reputation is shot. But it would be foolish to write it off.
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Standard & Poor’s has got it in the neck for downgrading state-owned companies in the Gulf. This is unfair on the agency. Instead, the onus should be on the region’s governments to make known their intentions about government-related entity debt well in advance.
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The appointment of two Britons, Adair Turner and Paul Tucker, to chair key taskforces within the Financial Stability Board shows that the UK’s influence in setting the global regulatory agenda may not be as diminished as continental Europe had once thought.
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Higher fees in return for lower margins. That simple but revolutionary formula has put the Asian loans market in a spin but is to the long-run benefit of banks as well as borrowers.
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Opportunistic bids and unsuccessful offers threaten to become as much of a trend in subordinated liability management exercises as the triumphant raising of core tier one capital. But that’s no bad thing — any choice for investors is better than no choice at all.