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Only one of Canada's big five banks has yet to publicly support new defence bank initiative
Bond specialists sceptical that auctions can yield better results than bookbuilding
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In this round-up, the US and China set a date for the next round of negotiation in Washington DC, MUFG and Mizuho receive approval to underwrite onshore Chinese bonds and China’s industrial profits growth edges down in August. -
In this round-up, Japanese firm Daiwa Securities gets the green light to set up a majority-owned brokerage in the Mainland, FTSE Russell does not include Chinese bonds in its indices and NetEase reveals plans to raise pigs.
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Kristalina Georgieva, who is the new managing director of the International Monetary Fund from Tuesday, plans to expand the use of precautionary instruments, such as credit lines, to more countries.
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Populist governments will be tempted to use the opportunity presented by record low yields to borrow money at close to zero interest rates to reverse austerity and fund major spending schemes, according to the authors of a study into long-term asset returns. Meanwhile, an economist elsewhere suggested lax monetary policy has meant sovereign credit default swap (CDS) prices are underrepresenting risks.
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In the latest dimension of global central banks’ interest in sustainability, the Bank for International Settlements has established a dollar green bond fund for central banks' foreign currency reserves. The aim is to let them incorporate environmental criteria into reserve management without overly damaging the liquidity and value of their reserves.
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The European Banking Authority has published its long-awaited discussion paper on the possibility of ‘Simple, Transparent and Standardised’ synthetic securitizations — opening the way to better regulatory treatment for risk transfer deals. That would endorse a market that frequently faces public criticism.
