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We haven’t seen many market-dividing deals this year. Everyone has been trying to find their feet again after a tumultuous 2008 and a horrendous first quarter so the conditions for market discord haven’t been there. Until now that is. Kookmin Bank’s covered bond last week has caused more arguments between bankers than bonus day.
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Can anything derail the corporate bond bandwagon? One potential peril, on an otherwise placid horizon, is issuers pushing inflated order books just a little too hard.
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Bank regulation in the wake of the financial crisis was supposed to put long-term health ahead of short-term gain. Allowing the US stress test subjects to offset future earnings against capital requirements makes a mockery of that principle.
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For much of the last year, financial institution borrowers had a simple task: see issuance window, jump through it. Now, they are faced with a dilemma: raise funds now, in case the market has a relapse, or hold out in the expectation that spreads will continue to rally.
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Private sector specialists added their backing yesterday to a proposed infrastructure fund that might issue bonds, designed to help finance $8 trillion worth of Asian projects over the next ten years — but implementation will be tough.
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A handful of long-awaited deals in the Russian loan market have been welcomed by lenders, starved of anything to get their teeth into since September last year. But don’t hold your breath — no-one is predicting a recovery of the market any time soon, least of all the bankers involved in these recent transactions.