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Regulators have agreed a first round of fines over rigging the G10 FX markets, but with big beasts such as the US Department of Justice conspicuous by their absence from the settlement, there could be plenty more to come.
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Market participants at the International Capital Markets Association’s primary markets forum on Wednesday questioned the value of technological developments in the syndication process that could remove human contact from the process. But regulatory and cost pressures will make technology all the more important, and arguably the last decade of bond market growth could not have happened with using technology to accelerate the new issue process.
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Barclays and MSCI have launched a green bond index family, which will run alongside their existing environmental, social and government fixed income indices.
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Santander returned to covered bonds this week with its first deal in nearly two years which, by virtue of its sheer size and duration, was remarkable. The two tranche deal included a 20 year piece that has not been seen in covered bonds for seven years. This was targeted to asset managers and insurers in the private sector — in sharp contrast to many other deals such as a €250m four year tap from LBBW that the Bundesbank mostly bought. The trades rammed home the distortion the European Central Bank's purchase programme (CBPP3) is causing the covered bond market which market makers said had potential to cause considerable mark to market pain. -
The long-delayed Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect (SHKSC) will finally get off the ground next week, with trading set to begin on November 17, opening the floodgates to China’s $3.9tr A-share market.
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The Reit Association of Singapore (Reitas) will become Singapore’s first representative body for the industry when it launches next week. Keeping Singapore a competitive financial hub for real estate investment trusts (Reits) is one of the association’s goals, according to its CEO.
