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The syndicated loan market is crucial for European corporate activity, supporting both short term and long term funding, as well as facilitating mergers and acquisitions. If it ceases to function, corporates will be in even more trouble than they are now.
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The Irish government’s wise and decisive move to guarantee the obligations of its banking system sets a precedent for financial markets everywhere. An exciting new age of prosperity beckons — if only the same thinking would be applied globally.
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The lack of dollar liquidity that is squeezing Asian banks will have a big impact on the syndicated loan market. A seismic shift away from US dollar lending is on the cards.
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Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy has robbed the Asian markets of a rising star.
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The failure of Lehman Brothers has revealed, in as stark terms as possible, that the foundation of mutual trust and confidence on which the whole banking edifice is built had become deeply rotten in just a few years. On Monday, the natural order was restored, and painful though that might be now, it was a necessary adjustment.
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Lehman’s worst mistake was to get its timing wrong — six months ago it might have been saved by Hank Paulson. But Bear Stearns and the US mortgage agencies used up the Treasury’s willpower and that left Lehman horribly exposed and alone.