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A pair of clean energy financing initiatives are optimistic about developing a green bond market in India as they head to a meeting with the Ministry of Finance next month. The establishment of green bonds could be a means of the country meeting its renewable energy targets, they said. -
Banks have been comfortable taking on large amounts of risk in trading options on the dollar versus the offshore renminbi. As liquidity, hedging and volatility increase with the currency’s rising popularity however, new market entrants, new derivatives products and confidence in the Chinese liberalisation programme will drive growth in coming months, according to speakers at a panel hosted by CME Group and the Treasury Markets Association.
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is taking steps to speed up equity raisings in the country, proposing ways to cut not just the time it takes to list but also conduct rights issues and other public offerings. The draft proposals come at a time when the Indian ECM market is set for a busy year, with bankers saying the new measures will make life easier not just for issuers but also investors.
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Concern is growing over the European Securities and Markets Authority’s process of establishing definitions and thresholds in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive – a critical part of which is the process for determining whether an instrument is liquid. If thresholds are calculated incorrectly, market makers may be less willing to provide liquidity to clients, prompting concerns that other market participants may use public data to trade against them, according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
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Bayerische Landesbank and Berenberg, the Hamburg-based private investment bank, have announced an unusual deal to cooperate in corporate finance, designed to help both firms fill gaps in their product armouries, especially around mergers and acquisitions.
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One of the latest consultations from the European Securities and Markets Association could bulldoze liquidity in large swathes of the fixed income market, despite last minute softening to the rules which cuts out some of its worst provisions.
