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The necessity of clauses that help developing countries recover from catastrophes is getting more acute
Data-deprived markets should give the shutdown the attention it deserves
Triple-C loan pricing has been shunted wider while the true credit quality of loans trading at par is obscured
Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders should consider alternatives after this week's sharp repricing
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European authorities want banks to provide credit to small and medium sized enterprises through SME backed covered bonds. But they don’t need the funding; they need capital. They need securitization.
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There was muted celebration in the European ABS market this week as yet another rule making body began to row back from the punitive regulatory treatment imposed on the industry in the wake of the financial crisis.
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LatAm bankers should know better than anyone that there is nothing silly about improving transparency in public sector contracting practices.
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Covered bond yields continued to tumble this week with coupons from German and French euro issuers skimming just above zero, at 0.025% and 0.125% respectively. Meanwhile, in Switzerland the first Swiss franc covered bond was issued with a negative yield of 0.37%. The deals may be good news for the issuers concerned, but investors are hurting. And by forcing them down the credit curve the seeds of the next crisis are potentially being sown.
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If the atmosphere at GlobalCapital’s annual Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Dinner can be taken as any kind of barometer, then the loan market going into 2015 is in rude health.
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There has been much excitement this week about corporate bonds starting to trade at negative yields, in the pressure cooker of Europe's bond market where European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi has just turned the dial up to 10.