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Allowing banks a longer transition period to bolster their balance sheets is a small price to pay for retaining strong prudential standards in the long term. The Basel Committee has got its priorities straight.
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European ABS is on the rise, but it needs to find more investors before appetite wanes.
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The Basel Committee says that its latest proposals will level the playing field between systemically important banks and their smaller peers. Subordinated debt practitioners say it will widen the divide between the haves and have-nots. Only one thing is clear: the banking sector’s cost of capital is set to soar.
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Leak sometimes just wants to help the single girls out there. And so, in the spirit of a list doing the rounds of the City of the top banks at which to find an ideal husband, we decided to do a little reverse enquiry on London’s MTN desks. Take your pick, ladies:
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The concept of mandating a “bail-in” for a failing bank is gaining ground among policymakers and industry groups. But in Denmark and Germany it’s already more than talk. It’s time that senior bondholders — secured and unsecured — start to reappraise relative value.
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Standard & Poor’s has underlined its reluctance to issue RACs to securitisation deals but clearer guidelines should help trustees as well as those writing new issue documentation. It’s the best the market can hope for.
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The recent second quarter results season has shone a light on banks’ funding requirements and how far they have got in chipping away at them. The numbers are surprisingly positive, adding yet further ballast to an increasingly stable industry.
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The stress tests on European banks have set off keen debate over their value and impact. But the true measure of their success will be in market performance and dealflow over the coming weeks.
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The likely wave of Eurobonds from Turkish banks represents a brilliant opportunity for all the loans houses that provided their balance sheets to such borrowers in the last few years. Loans bankers have little reason to be upset.
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The G20 meetings may have highlighted more differences than similarities between governments on fiscal and financial reform, but there is one thing on which policymakers around the world increasingly agree. Bank bondholders will have to bear some of the burden of resolution in future. EuroWeek presents the cases for and against this radical change of direction.