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Not every borrower can print overseas in their local currency, but for those that can, it is a great tool
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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No matter what ECB president Mario Draghi might want to tell the Germans, the central bank’s OMT scheme is an all but tailor-made mechanism to provide Spain with the means to begin fixing its debt hangover.
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The once-legendary Belgian dentist, who epitomised the enthusiastic retail buyer of bonds in curious, now-forgotten currencies like the Luxembourg franc, is fading from Euromarket memory.
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No sane SSA borrower would say that the public sector primary markets were in worse shape now than they were a year ago, even with the possibility of a Spanish bail-out. So given the recent experience of markets closing amid unprecedented and unpredictable volatility, why are more borrowers not looking to get ahead of 2013’s funding programmes?
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Air Liquide’s announcement this week that it had become "the first private company to issue bonds meeting SRI investors’ criteria" smelled of hype.
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All the talk in leveraged finance is about the high yield bond and leveraged loan markets converging.
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Who would be a central banker? It takes a special breed, clearly. Just ask Mario Draghi, lambasted by disgruntled politicians or bankers or investors every day before he promised to prop up Europe’s failed economies — only to find himself pilloried by a slightly different subset of the same folk every day since.