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Evraz launched a $700m deal this week to become the first Russian borrower to try to tackle the loan market since the country annexed Crimea on March 18. Other Russian borrowers considering loans can learn from its approach.
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What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? For Europe’s policymakers, the past two years or so — since EU president Herman Van Rompuy set out his roadmap for banking union and fiscal integration in the eurozone — have been an exercise in answering that question.
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It’s a classic moral panic for the UK broadsheet newspapers. ‘Government housing policy fails’ scream the headlines. ‘Paltry take-up for social housing aid’.
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This week’s unveiling of socially responsible investment and green sukuk projects at the Islamic Financial Services Board by the World Bank put an inspiring twist in the essence of what Islamic finance is meant to be about — ethical investment, lest anyone had forgotten. But it also illuminated the catchword the IFSB most wants to promote: inclusivity.
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JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley’s EM rivals may be gleefully awaiting punishment of those banks through future Russian mandates after this week they helped Ukraine raise $1bn via a US-AID backed bond, but they should not bet the ranch on a Russian freeze out.
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The covered bond industry looks set to achieve its aim of having highly rated bonds counted as Level 1 assets in the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR). This is great news for the Danes in particular and the right decision for Danish, Swedish and German iterations of the product.