Europe
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Italy has hired banks to tap its 2.8% March 2067 BTPs, as the week's supply of long term euro debt shows little sign of abating. -
Swedish agency Kommuninvest has said that it will issue more green bonds than previously expected, alongside a rise in its funding needs for 2019.
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Deutsche Bank has made deep cuts to its equity sales and trading business, as part of an aggressive restructuring plan. The bank has said it intends to retain a “focused equity capital markets business”, but in practice this means a significant retrenchment, with a strict focus on supporting Deutsche’s core clients in Europe and the US.
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CNP Assurances has decided to postpone its sale of a green tier two capital bond until later this year. The French insurance company, which is restructuring, had intended to sell a security with a rare format in the bond market.
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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fired Turkish central bank governor Murat Cetinkaya. The development has, according to capital market participants, shredded more of Turkey’s credibility and caused last week’s dollar benchmark to slump below re-offer.
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Deutsche Bank's far-reaching restructuring plan to pull out of equity sales and trading and streamline the investment bank elsewhere involves a tie-up with BNP Paribas for parts of its business. The troubled German lender also signalled the advantage of a recent rule change to additional tier one coupon payments in allowing it to proceed with the changes.
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Investors rushed to buy Credit Mutuel Arkea’s 10 year covered bond on Friday and lock in the positive yield before it disappears, probably in a matter of weeks. Strong demand was all the more remarkable given the bank’s Aa3 rating could be downgraded by three notches.
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This week's funding scorecard looks at the progress of Europe's supranationals and agencies as we enter the start of the third quarter.
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In this round-up, Chinese securities regulators allow their Hong Kong counterpart to access audit papers of Hong Kong-listed mainland companies, Chinese premier Li Keqiang vowed to lift the 51% foreign ownership cap on Chinese financial firms sooner than planned, and free-trade zones (FTZs) receive more autonomy in trying out new policies.
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In this round-up, US and China will resume trade talks next week, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley near 51% stakes in their Chinese joint ventures (JVs), and China’s foreign minister offered a strong-worded rebuttal to the UK’s stand on Hong Kong protests.
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Yields across asset classes plumbed ever lower depths this week but investors were still forced to participate in deals as cash floods into fixed income funds. Now market participants have questioned whether the coming round of likely rate cuts will reveal the limits of investor tolerance. Lewis McLellan, Burhan Khadbai and Bill Thornhill report.
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