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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. -
“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.
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When it comes to Banking Union, national priorities always trump European ones.
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On Wednesday, RBS announced it was settling one of its subprime RMBS lawsuits, for a chunky $5.5bn. The shares plunged to the depths of last Monday on the news, and the market mostly yawned — RBS had provisioned nearly everything, leaving only a £151m earnings charge for Q2.
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If ever there was an example of how much timing matters in the bond market, it was the European Financial Stability Facility’s dual tranche trade this week.
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The process to save the world's oldest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, has dragged on long enough to feel like it may have been, appropriately perhaps, the world's longest winded bank rescue. For such an investment of time and manpower, the fact that the final resolution is a large bill for the Italian taxpayer is disappointing.
