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  • It’s been a tense couple of days for corporate bond and equity markets, but participants’ gloom should not bring a halt to issuance.
  • Whisper it, but regulation is getting better. It’s still growing — there were nearly 2,000 pages to pore over this week — but the détente between the financiers and legislators is starting to deliver.
  • There is no better illustration of human diversity than a US Federal Reserve press conference. Thousands of financial specialists, mostly with similar educations and backgrounds, listen to them at the same time.
  • Investment banks, like empires, rise and fall — only rather faster. In December 1997, EuroWeek (forerunner of GlobalCapital) covered the first bond on which Royal Bank of Scotland appeared in the syndicate, as a co-manager.
  • In choosing to leave rates unchanged, the US Federal Reserve on Thursday night opened a window for borrowers to wave through funding. And in its minutes, it suggested that might be a broad window. Good job too.
  • It is easy to judge banks harshly for accepting or not accepting mandates from certain credits because of the c-word. But compliance departments’ seemingly renewed stringency, while frustrating for EM bankers, is a positive step.