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Barclays is issuing a digital capital protected note denominated in the offshore Chinese renminbi.
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Given the uncertainty surrounding Cyprus, Credit Suisse is recommending a 2s5s flattener on the euro forward rate agreement-overnight index curve as a hedge for a systemic collapse.
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Société Générale is to expand asset classes, services and payoffs offers on its Alpha structured products platform.
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The industry is concerned that product intervention rules will have a detrimental effect on innovation and may risk in firms limiting their offerings to vanilla products.
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The suggestion by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Dutch finance minister and head of the Eurogroup, that senior bail-in could become the norm in bank bail-outs has spooked the markets. The subsequent retraction was an attempt to reflect the politically acceptable view that the Cyprus situation is a one-off. But in fact he had articulated perfectly how bank bondholders should view their investments. Bail-in needs to be priced in before denial once again takes hold.
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Not many corporates could pull off a jumbo LBO in the US market in the way that ketchup maker Heinz managed. But more and more European borrowers are shifting at least part of their financing across the Atlantic, where they can access cheaper funding with no covenants attached. If investors in Europe want to compete, they need to end their resistance to cov-lite deals.