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Issuer has set the stage for peers to return to public market
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  • European Union member states are finding more and more ways to prop up failing financial institutions with public money. The longer it goes on, the harder it is going to become for authorities to crack down on a culture of bailouts.
  • This year GlobalCapital has reported extensively on the various debt capital markets technology platforms being developed by both the public and private sectors. But which will come out on top? We should get an answer in 2020.
  • Christine Lagarde, the new European Central Bank president, has planted a flag, placing climate change at the centre of the ECB’s priorities. That is bold — and laudable — but if the ECB is to have a meaningful impact, green QE is not enough. The ECB must divest its holdings of unsustainable assets.
  • The European Central Bank has the power to decide the ultimate impact of the Basel III rules in Europe.
  • Certain US private placement (PP) investors are beginning to fear a turn in the famously prudent market, towards a world with looser financial covenants. Let us hope this remains a fear and does not become reality.
  • While capital markets professionals might be preparing to pop champagne corks in the expectation of a Conservative Party victory in the UK’s general election on December 12, they should remember that the government’s key policy is appalling for the UK.