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The US Department of the Treasury defied Republican calls to scrap the Orderly Liquidation Authority this week, after publishing a report in which it recommended an overhaul of the nation’s framework for dealing with failing banks. -
A new study of green bond pricing has stopped short of saying that green bond issuers can generally expect to get tighter new issue premiums. But the report’s lead author did say: “Green bond buyers can’t expect to receive a new issue premium — that is itself quite a bold statement.”
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Barclays reported annual results on Thursday, revealing the huge scale of the firm’s trading balance sheet expansion in 2017, as it scales back up in its historical strength of macro trading. But the low volatility last year weighed on returns, and the growth in the trading book has yet to deliver the profits it hopes for.
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Disallowing the use of senior bail-in debt as collateral at the ECB has alarmed some parts of the market — but discouraging banks from buying other banks' debt should be applauded.
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Oekom Research, the sustainability ratings agency, has given only 7% of the asset managers and securities brokerages it assessed a prime rating, in an unpublished report seen by GlobalCapital.
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HSBC plans to issue between $5bn-$7bn of additional tier one debt in the first half of this year, clearing the path for share buybacks in the second half. The bank is prevented by listing authority rules from issuing AT1 at the same time as running a buyback, meaning it delayed its issuance plans last year.
