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In this round up, China floated rare earth exports as a weapon in its trade war with the US, May’s PMI fell across the board and the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) activated a fund to protect domestic depositors’ savings -
Eurobank has securitized a €2bn portfolio of non-performing mortgages, ahead of the likely development of a Greek version of the Italian guarantee scheme for senior tranches of NPL deals.
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Equity investors welcomed the prospects of elections in Greece, sending bank stocks up 25% this week. But with banks in the country struggling with non-performing exposures (NPE), the debt market is unlikely to see a change in negative sentiment, said FIG bankers.
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Chinese authorities took over Baoshang Bank this week, the first time the state has taken control of a financial institution in two decades. Despite the central bank promising to guarantee most deposits held by Baoshang, yields on similarly rated banks’ outstanding short-term debt jumped as issuance volumes tumbled — leading the central bank to take the ‘unusual’ move of injecting liquidity into the market for three consecutive days. Rebecca Feng reports.
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The Hong Kong financial regulator has fined China Merchants Securities’ local arm for breaching its IPO code of conduct while working on the listing of China Metal Recycling.
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US investment research firm Morningstar has agreed to buy credit ratings agency DBRS for $669m, in a move that will expand its business in this area beyond the US. The deal will be partially backed by a new bank credit facility.
