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Reforms should focus on banks' access to liquidity, not capital
Issuer has set the stage for peers to return to public market
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
Investors are still around and issuers can get ahead of the September rush
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Protecting retail investors is a laudable goal. But what they are protected from often seems arbitrary.
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The cryptocurrency world exploded in popularity, appeal and market capitalisation over the course of 2017. Exchanges struggled to develop products to cater to the huge swell of speculative demand. They’re learning quickly that the market wasn’t ready. -
The Wellcome Trust charity is a fine institution. The medical research it has funded will benefit the world for many years. This week it helped fund that work by selling a £750m 100 year bond. The investors who bought it probably have a warm glow inside knowing they have helped the cause. But is it responsible to buy bonds that will redeem in 2118?
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US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin’s perceived attempt to talk down the dollar on Wednesday drew the ire of ECB president Mario Draghi, but the latter's insistence on playing fair is going to make his job more difficult.
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Making Kazakh domestic assets Euroclearable is a laudable aim. But in its treatment of international investors, the country needs to be aspire to similarly high standards if it is to succeed in opening up capital markets.
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Primary covered bond sales have gone smoothly so far this year, with borrowers continuing to pay negligible new issue premiums and still attracting comfortably oversubscribed order books. But look a little closer and its clear there’s been a perceptible change. Investors are fighting back, and beginning to get their way.
