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South Korea’s regulators are widely expected to adopt new rules that force banks to sell perpetual additional tier one bonds, something that was prohibited until now. The move will push lenders to execute more expensive offshore capital raising and while the shift will improve the soundness of Korea’s banking system, it will take the market time to adjust to the new regime. -
Mario Draghi, European Central Bank president, is known for playing with his bazooka. Right now, it feels more like his Badedas. The capital markets are swimming in froth, as surely as if Draghi had doused them with revitalising bath goo.
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Several covered bond issuers have removed the swaps in their covered bond programmes in the face of onerous regulatory obligations. This has improved their funding efficiency and given investors a less risky, more transparent and potentially higher yielding product. Others should follow.
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Several covered bond issuers have removed the swaps in their covered bond programmes, in the face of onerous regulatory obligations. This has improved their funding efficiency and given investors a less risky, more transparent, and potentially higher yielding product. Others should follow.
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The UK moved quickly, and a long way, on bank capital, but apparently it hasn’t done enough. In a year when the Basel Committee is supposed to be finally finishing its own capital rules, do we really need more uncertainty?
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Public outrage around tax avoidance, set ablaze by the Luxembourg Leaks last year and now superheated by the recent “Panama Papers”, is becoming visceral. And public disgust is a pretty reliable leading indicator of big trouble for banks.
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Consolidation has been a perennial theme in Italian finance, but the country has little to show for it. This time is different.
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Covered bonds have had a great start to 2016, in terms of supply, spread performance, and participation in the market from real money investors, but this trend is unlikely to hold. Central bank action, once again, will corrode the market from both supply and demand sides.
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The endgame for the Basel Committee’s new credit risk rules is to get rid of internal models, but it just can’t get there yet.
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Consolidation has been a perennial theme in Italian finance, but the country has little to show for it. This time is different.
