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Senior notes were priced tighter than recent deals
Mixing collateral across borders will not work for every issuer
IPTs still leave room for tightening into 60s
◆ Unsecured sterling supply ranges from highly rated US insurers to debut, unrated capital ◆ Aldermore's inaugural benchmark to be a tier two ◆ MassMutual brings September's third sterling FABN
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The Guangdong provincial government sold Rmb10bn ($1.5bn) of special purpose bonds this week, creating a new form of support for small and medium-sized banks. The proceeds will provide a crucial source of funding for the country’s many capital-starved regional lenders, but there are questions about how effective the scheme will be. Addison Gong reports. -
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has this week put out new guidelines for auditors to follow when they check the way banks calculate expected credit losses. The guidance arrives as market participants struggle to determine the outlook for bad loans, as a result of a significant variability in accounting practices.
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Barclays has invited holders of some of its legacy tier two bonds to exchange their notes for cash, as it looks to smarten up its debt capital structure.
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European banks will have longer than expected to correct the fallback language in their dollar-denominated additional tier ones (AT1s), now that dollar Libor has been given an extra 18 months to live.
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Santander UK completed the first consent solicitation for moving a sterling additional tier one note away from Libor to referencing Sonia on Thursday, setting a precedent for other banks to follow.
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Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena led a trio of speculative grade Italian banks into the euro bond market this week, as credit investors showed that no issuers were off limit in their increasingly desperate search for yield. Tyler Davies reports.
