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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. -
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.
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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.
