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Covered bond issuers have been reluctant to issue on the same day as a central bank announcement, but this is starting to change
Markets are looking to the authorities to simplify blockchain issues, but they may not have the purest motives
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Tschüss, Barclays. The safe and stodgy Swiss franc bond market was anything but this week. Barclays, which entered the market with great fanfare in 2010, has shut down all bond activities in the currency — a drastic move as part of its cull of up to 400 investment banking jobs.
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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.