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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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It has been a trying week for emerging market bankers and issuers, but both fund flows and credit spreads indicate that it wasn’t a shocking one. And the flight from EM funds into the European periphery that has been underway for some time will benefit both markets.
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The Spanish Treasury showed that timing is something on which it is a bit of an expert this week.
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A palpable sense of trepidation returned to Islamic finance practitioners this week on learning that the United Kingdom’s long demanded sukuk debut may not happen until at least October.
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When did you last see a $25bn book for a perpetual non-call 10 year additional tier one capital deal with two triggers for temporary principal write-down, one based on the issuer’s capital ratio and the other based on the capital ratio of its parent group, both of them set at different levels?
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At Euromoney Conferences’ Central and Eastern European Forum in Vienna this week, sovereign, bank and corporate funding officials explained why they felt that funding in 2014 in the capital markets would be a slam dunk. But the record high issuance levels from the emerging markets over the last two weeks reveal fears that they are less comfortable publicising.
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The capital markets could be forgiven for thinking that Christmas came a little late this week. Blowout deals for Ireland and Portugal — plus strong showings for banks and corporations in those countries throughout the periphery — suggest that the funding part of the eurozone debt crisis could be coming to an end.