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Issuers have frontloaded their core currency funding and could benefit from turning their attention to other projects as the year draws to an end
Reforms should focus on banks' access to liquidity, not capital
Issuer has set the stage for peers to return to public market
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  • How much should you get paid to hold a deeply subordinated chunk of hybrid bank capital with idiosyncratic structural features from, sometimes, darkly storied credits?
  • Capital requirements ought to be the soft padding that lets the market bounce around without doing any damage. But when they are too high, capital requirements, rather than economics, set the price of a security.
  • In the patter emerging market syndicate bankers roll out after a deal is priced, they often modestly (HA!) extol the virtues of their own execution, the timing of a deal and, in the slight hope of a quote massaging the ego of their client, the issuer’s own expertise.
  • Greece’s sovereign funding officials may have had their spirits lifted by the success of Portugal and Ireland in returning to the bond market in the past year. But although Greece’s yields are falling, its loudly broadcast hopes of making its comeback before May’s European elections border on the Panglossian side of optimism.
  • In May 2013, the bond market was in the last throes of its buy anything and everything mode as Petrobras sold the largest ever EM bond at $11bn. Petrobras has now returned with an $8.5bn sale.
  • The launch of the first green bond index is a coup for Solactive and the Climate Bonds Initiative, though neither of them has put an enormous amount of work into it.