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Global finance needs global regulation. Everyone acknowledges it, but everyone ignores it.
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Those watching Zambia bonds might think that the $1.25bn deal this week yielding 9.375% demonstrates a borrower on the ropes considering in 2012 it paid a coupon of 5.375% for its debut bond. In fact, this is a borrower showing smarts when the rest of the CEEMEA gang appear to have bottled it.
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Greece may have passed a big hurdle on the way to arranging a further bail-out package this week calming markets along the way, but borrowers that relax over the summer could well find themselves regretting not having taken immediate advantage of the better conditions.
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Time is up for the covered bond lemmings. They’ve had it too easy for too long. Gone are the days of pricing a covered bond exactly where your neighbour wished they had printed theirs. Issuers need to be nimble and bankers insightful.
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All political careers supposedly end in failure, but the same seems to be true of investment bank chief executives.
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The stock market of the world’s second largest economy is in crisis. China’s A-shares have suffered their biggest three-week drop in a decade, wiping more than $3tr off the market.
