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The necessity of clauses that help developing countries recover from catastrophes is getting more acute
Data-deprived markets should give the shutdown the attention it deserves
Triple-C loan pricing has been shunted wider while the true credit quality of loans trading at par is obscured
Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders should consider alternatives after this week's sharp repricing
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The US student loan market is in bubble territory. At $1.3tr, it is the country's second largest consumer debt segment after residential mortgages. Yet, even though 44m Americans are saddled with student debt, at an average of around $37,000 per borrower, student loans are more a drag on economic growth than a disaster waiting to happen. -
If you’re a bank chief executive under pressure from shareholders this is the playbook: first, lower expectations and provision everything; second, raise some capital and set out a path to future success. Only then do you try to make some actual money.
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Greece’s return to the capital markets this week was cause for celebration, but the irony is that five years after committing to do "whatever it takes" the European Central Bank is now poised to normalise monetary policy — which means investors must start pricing for risk.
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One of the murkiest areas of modern finance, as of Tuesday, fell under the scrutiny of the US regulatory authorities. The booming cryptocurrency industry has hitherto provided an unregulated source of free capital to tech start-ups, but those days could be over.
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Investors complain often and vocally about so many aspects of new issue execution. Often their complaints fall on deaf ears, sometimes they are acknowledged, and occasionally they are acted upon. This week an issuer considered complaints that had rung in their ears for over a year, only to find investors did not want what they said after all.
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“What were they thinking?” cried the European ABS market this week as the full impact of what originally seemed like an innocuous ban on an already illegal mortgage product became clear.
