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UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has proposed a “British Recovery Bond” — a retail government issue that would be used to finance SME lending to help kick-start the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. It can be tempting to dismiss such measures as political posturing, but there are some genuine advantages to the proposal, and it deserves its day. -
The thinking that the additional tier one (AT1) market should go back to trading through its pre-pandemic valuations holds big risks.
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The huge retail investor demand for some recent Hong Kong IPOs has caught the stock exchange’s attention, leading to an investigation into how retail accounts place orders. The move will offer some welcome relief to institutional investors losing out on some of the city’s largest listings.
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The Hong Kong regulator’s plan to overhaul the bookbuilding and allocation process for equity and bond deals has some worthy goals. But it is unnecessary for a market that has proven able to clean its own house.
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The size of a covered bond liquidity buffer that protects investors against the risk of payment disruption should be an important risk consideration, but there is no incentive to play safe as regulatory and central bank treatment of the asset class play more pivotal roles in valuations.
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H&M, the Swedish fashion company, has sold a sustainability-linked security for its debut outing in the bond markets. This is an encouraging step, but the fashion industry has a lot more work to do to clean up its look.
