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Commercial paper dealers and investors are protesting about the Bank of England’s planned intervention in their market. Quite right, too. The plan risks subsidising firms that don’t have funding problems and driving away the very investors that are starting to provide a solution to credit scarcity where it does exist.
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The EU’s plans to assert control over credit default swaps clearing are as impractical as they are unpopular. The banking industry must grasp the nettle and implement a global solution acceptable to the industry or risk a worse sting from regulators and their ill-formed proposals.
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The Kingdom of Spain and the European Investment Bank transactions last week showed how, despite the best intentions in the world, deals do go wrong. One paid too much and was overwhelmed with demand while the other tried to pay too little and struggled leaving two disappointed borrowers and an uncertain market. Syndicate managers need to do better.
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It will serve politicians right if RBS bankers defect to rivals over low bonus payments. While compensation is clearly headed lower in the downturn, it should be left to the market to decide how much bankers are paid.
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Is this the golden age of the corporate bond market? Looking back at the last few weeks of primary issuance, it certainly seems to be so.
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The bookrunner line-up for the European Investment Bank’s latest euro benchmark shows how the region’s local banks are muscling in on mandates that were once the preserve of bulge bracket firms.