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Proposed 10% limit on interest would strip out most of securitizations' excess spread
Implementation necessary after wide-ranging changes last year
It is not enough to just undo some of the European Commission’s more controversial proposals
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A eurozone bad bank would have been difficult to institute even without the coronavirus crisis to spur it on. Now, with countries diverging on moratorium measures in response to the pandemic, it’s verging on impossible. -
Supervisors are encouraging financial institutions to use all of their capital and liquidity buffers as necessary during the coronavirus crisis, signalling that lenders will be given a "significant" amount of time to restore their regulatory ratios to adequate levels.
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Any attempt to create a eurozone bad bank is likely to face many challenges, both political ones over support for the banking sector and practical ones in creating an institution dealing with non-performing loans from across Europe, market experts have said.
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Market participants have dismissed the viability of Turkey extending its swap line arrangements with the US Federal Reserve this week to enhance the country's access to dollars. They also noted that little has happened to change their bearish outlook on the sovereign.
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Companies in the US high yield market have started adding a "corona claw" provision to bond documents, allowing a big chunk of new bond issues to be paid back early if the company gets cash from the federal government. But it’s not clear yet where any public money will fit in the capital structure of leveraged corporates — and whether bondholders could end up primed by the government.
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The UK government has filled one of the last gaps in its offer of financial help to companies struggling with effects of the coronavirus, by removing the cap of £500m revenue, which had barred many medium-sized companies from accessing government loans — raising the possibility that high yield bond issuers could tap loans for a variety of purposes.
