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UK taxpayers and the politicians that represent them have many good reasons to be angry at the management of the Royal Bank of Scotland — now that they control a majority of the bank, the extent of RBS’s losses affects them too. But nationalistic carping at the bank’s global lending businesses is a travesty of the truth.
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The UK government’s new bank lending plan signals a change of tack in its approach to the financial crisis, but beware the appetite of the beast.
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UK taxpayers and the politicians that represent them have many good reasons to be angry at the management of the Royal Bank of Scotland — now that they control a majority of the bank, the extent of RBS’s losses affects them too. But nationalistic carping at the bank’s global lending businesses is a travesty of the truth.
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Safe. Solid. Secure. It must be the Swiss franc bond market. But yields falling to levels unappealing even to some, at least, of the most conservative money managers on the planet are threatening to shake up that sedate world, and, in a positive model for the wider capital markets, encourage investors to start buying riskier credits.
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The debate over whether Deutsche Bank should have called its lower tier two bond at the first opportunity is refusing to die down with more fuel added to the fire this week when HBOS announced that it would call an upcoming deal of its own. Investors are still in inflammatory mood but tempers could be cooled if only bank regulators would stand up and publicly support issuers.
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The corporate bond market looked like one of the worst casualties of 2008’s turmoil. Its vital signs were weak, its pulse was fading and only a prescription of generous spreads and a course of utilities transactions helped the sector recover in the final weeks of the year. But it’s not time for the patient to jump out of bed and start flirting with the nurses — the all-clear is a long way off yet.