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Traders, bankers, lawyers, brokers tell their stories of what happened when Lehman Brothers went down, how it ruined some businesses and created room for others, and how it has changed financial markets — for better and worse. -
Those at Lehman Brothers on Monday, September 15, 2008 will remember the moment the lines between the London and New York offices went dead.
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As the market waits for Brazilian banks to launch the first covered bonds out of the country, market participants from the country say it provides the lenders with a useful new instrument. But whether they can reach investment grade status in euros or dollars depends on currency risk mitigation, according to a Moody’s official.
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Negotiations between the European Parliament, the European Commission and the covered bond industry around asset eligibility are like trying to “put a square peg in a round hole” and have proved to be the “mother of all discussions”, said key representatives of the two organisations at the European Covered Bond Council’s (ECBC) 28th Plenary Meeting in Munich on Wednesday.
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Jörg Kukies, secretary of state at the German Ministry of Finance, suggested that the EU’s proposed covered bond directive should not dilute the quality of the product too much. He also wanted to see developments on the Capital Market Union (CMU) by the end of the year and called for an agreement on third-country central counterparties (CCPs).
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Seventeen years ago, the 9/11 attacks were a black swan event for financial markets and the broader economy. Now, insurance firm Aon is examining terrorism risk as part of a wider aim to close insurance protection gaps and transfer risk to the capital markets.
