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CME Group, one of the US's premier financial institutions, plans to launch futures on bitcoin. This will give investors a clean way to bet on the price of the cryptocurrency, whose price has soared eightfold this year.
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US President Donald Trump doesn’t normally stick to playing it safe. But by picking Jerome Powell to lead the Federal Reserve he has got the closest thing to Janet Yellen without having to reappoint the incumbent Fed chair to a second term.
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Nobody really believes that €126bn of debt issued under English law will stop counting towards the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) as soon as the UK leaves the EU. So why should European authorities pretend that it’s a risk?
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The Banque de France has set out its own criteria for the linguistics of the Basel reforms — if only reaching an agreement was as easy.
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At first glance the flurry of Italian banks entering the capital markets — including such unfamiliar names as Banca Popolare Dell’alto Adige (BPAA) and Banca Sistema — is an indication that international investors will lap up the debt of Italian minnows just as readily as they do for larger lenders in other peripheral Eurozone countries.
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National Bank of Greece’s ability to attract a high oversubscription for its three year covered bond on Tuesday showed it is on the road to recovery. But without sovereign debt relief, the precarious state of Greece’s government finances will continue to blight the economy and its fragile banks.
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Restricted tier one (RT1) bonds still do not make sense for Europe’s insurance industry and the asset class needs benchmark issuance before it can become a significant market in its own right. But the first deal in a major currency from ASR Nederland will be a very important line in the sand.
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Italy’s banks and politicians are worried about the European Central Bank’s non-performing loan crackdown. They are right to worry — but the answer is bankruptcy reform.
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Chinese issuers and investors are likely to be largely absent from the dollar bond market for the next few weeks, as the country prepares for a crucial meeting of Communist Party officials. The slowdown will be a good chance for issuers from elsewhere in the region to tap the market — and demonstrate whether Asia’s bond market can remain standing without Chinese liquidity.
