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The junior debt of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena rallied strongly on Wednesday on reports the Italian government was preparing to buy €2bn of subordinated bonds from retail investors, support which could potentially avoid the European Commission’s onerous state aid rules. -
Royal Bank of Scotland was looking to settle a series of litigation claims for up to £800m this week, shortly after being heavily penalised by potential misconduct fines in the Bank of England’s 2016 stress tests.
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There is too much diversity in covered bond legal and supervisory frameworks to justify special regulatory treatment of all regimes and programmes, said Christian Moor, a policy advisor with the European Banking Authority, at the Afme and VDP covered bond conference in Berlin.
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The spectacle of Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi’s political suicide did little to rattle financial markets on Monday morning, with any immediate negativity in credit and equity that had not already been priced in ahead of the country’s Sunday referendum quickly eased over by shorters monetising their gains.
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European Central Bank director general of market operations Ulrich Bindseil, said the central bank’s decision to raise repo haircuts for covered bonds with extendable maturities was purely for risk management purposes and should not be interpreted as a judgemental view of the structures.
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HSBC has announced a series of changes to its DCM and syndicate teams, including Rob Gardiner's move from FIG syndicate to origination.
