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Investors have been complaining about a lack of harmonisation across bank capital products for years. But with new loss-absorbency rules putting it more at risk than ever, they appear to have fallen silent.
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Before the days of miniaturised electronics, coal miners would use a canary in a cage as an early warning system. If a tunnel was filling with carbon monoxide, the bird would die before the miners, leaving them time to get out.
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New issue concessions of 50bp drew snorts of derision from some corners of the FIG market last week, but with Greece sending shivers down investors’ spines, the banks that paid up early may have the last laugh. -
After years of inactivity, Asia will finally get the first legislative covered bonds from South Korea’s Kookmin Bank and Singapore’s DBS. But even though governments are keen on the product, the asset class is unlikely to truly blossom in the region.
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Green bonds, SRI, ESG — they’re all pretty much the same, right? Wrong.
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Banks, rightly, have been asked for more data and more disclosure than ever before – driven largely by tougher regulatory regimes. But regulators themselves still fall short of the transparency which market participants need.
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Turkish banks habitually follow wherever Akbank goes to their own advantage — but with longer dated financing they should follow for both their own good and that of the market.
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You know when you know what someone means, but what they’ve actually said is gobbledygook?
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Investors have been crying out for yield for months, and now they're available, they're not investing.
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A post-oil world is no longer a hippy fantasy. By 2100, G7 leaders have declared, the global economy should no longer be cooking on gas. Policy and markets now face profound change.
