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Investor Access, a platform which allows investors to submit orders for a new bond issue directly into the order book was deployed for the first time last week on a Commonwealth Bank of Australia sterling covered bond. Now work is underway to convince more dealers of the initiative’s worth. -
It’s a back-to-the-future new year for Barclays as it forges ahead with its strategic repositioning — the latest moves in what feel like decades-long twists and turns into and out of Africa and investment banking.
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The French markets regulator has opened a consultation on regulating corporate finance advisory activities – an area which, when carried by boutiques, consultancies, law firms and accountants, can sometimes avoid formal regulatory scrutiny.
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Barclays, Lloyds, RBS and Santander UK all priced synthetic CLOs for risk transfer purposes just before the year-end, honing their capital positions for full year 2016 reporting. Most of the deals focused on large corporates, an asset class that fuelled much of last year’s boom in risk transfer trades, as banks seek ways to get ahead of increased Basel risk weights.
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The ECB’s review of bank internal models, dubbed TRIM, looks set to swell bank balance sheets in the year ahead — partially removing any benefit European firms get from a delay of the Basel Committee’s new credit risk rules.
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Anshu Jain’s move to Cantor Fitzgerald proves that, when it comes to building a fixed income business, the smart money is on the non-bank financial sector, argues David Rothnie.
