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The Basel Committee said on Wednesday that it had not figured out how the regulatory capital regime could deal with the IFRS 9 accounting rules set to come in next year and backed a transitional period, as few banks are ready for the ‘capital shock’ that could result.

Donald Trump’s presidency may be the most unknown commodity to hit markets since ancient alchemists started hawking something called 'bronze' to befuddled cavemen, but his stone-age political manoeuvring has smoothed the future path of public sector borrowing.

Shares in Mol, the Hungarian oil and gas company, fell 3.4% early on Thursday morning but recovered to close flat, after Čez Group, the Czech electricity company, sold its whole 7.5% stake in Mol through an accelerated bookbuild, while buying back bonds it had issued that were exchangeable into Mol shares.

Croatian retailer Agrokor’s debt hit distressed territory this week after rumours of hidden debt and a Moody’s downgrade spooked the buy-side. Clarity is unlikely until a forensic audit of the issuer is completed, say experts.

Turkey’s six year sovereign sukuk was priced flat to its conventional curve for the first time following the asset class’s inclusion in the JP Morgan indices, even as the country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s bid to consolidate power is an increasingly dominant talking point.

CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) will be the first the CBOE exchange to migrate onto the Bats technology platform that it recently bought.

The European Commission delivered the final blow to a proposed merger between Europe's biggest stock exchange operators, Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange, on Wednesday, but some market observers wondered whether the parties themselves had gone cold on the deal.

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Guarantor: Kingdom of Spain

The brace of deals printed last week proved evenly matched under the scrutiny of the GC BondMarker voters.

Electricité de France’s €4.018bn three-for-10 rights issue has been oversubscribed, despite the continuing alarming flow of headlines about the nuclear power industry, and the approach of a French presidential election that could bring the far right to power.

Telia and Tennet broke 2017’s euro corporate hybrid fast by bringing trades within a day of each other. Bankers said investors will have the chance to gorge themselves as plenty more issuers are lining up after the success of this week’s deals.