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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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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • All political careers supposedly end in failure, but the same seems to be true of investment bank chief executives.
  • 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.
  • Bankers will not admit it, but the public euro bond markets are de facto shut. Barring a miracle in Greece, they are expected to remain so until after Labor Day in early September.
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