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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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Another week, another sovereign debt crisis solving scheme. But has Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen’s lightbulb moment — sovereign-issued covered bonds just like the ones Finland printed back when it was a European debt pariah — got what it takes to end a crisis?
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In a couple of weeks’ time we might well be watching Spain against Germany, with Germany winning after Spain crashes out on penalties. We might also get to watch some football too…
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When a crisis looks like it is approaching its peak, a bit of solidarity never goes amiss. The sight this week of François Hollande standing alongside Mario Monti in a joint call for growth-promoting policies to balance the austerity drive might have well have rankled in Berlin, particularly as common eurozone bonds were also on their agenda.
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After more than a year of vague indications, delays and consultations, the European Commission has finally set out its crisis resolution package, laying down the rules by which national governments can force losses on senior bank creditors and avoid a repeat of the taxpayer bail-outs seen through the financial crisis.
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"Summertime and the Spanish are queasy... Investors are jumping and the yields are high..."
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As much guff as sense is talked about the financing mountains, precipices and black holes that supposedly face European companies as Basel III kicks in.