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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.
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Most of the time, it’s much easier to deal with new leverage than getting rid of old leverage. That’s something the US CLO market would do well to remember with lead managers said to be placing new CLOs with hedge funds that are taking down senior tranches, provided they can do so, up to 9x levered, making the 150bp spreads on offer look a bit more exciting.
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Rejoice one and all, for M&A has made its long awaited return. But loans bankers might want to keep that celebratory champagne on ice for now, as the way multi-billion dollar acquisitions are financed in a post-crisis world are going to be very different to the big fee earners of old.