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In recent years, the European Union has reformed in the teeth of a crisis. Banking Union was sketched out on the back of a napkin to help break the “sovereign-bank doom loop” which was threatening peripheral economies. The financing vehicles of the European Financial Stability Fund and then the European Stability Mechanism were called into being to rescue states whose finances were already weak.
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Investors are expecting a jumbo trade from the Qatari sovereign in the coming weeks, with money already shifting out of the borrower’s curve in preparation. -
Fitch took the knife to Gabon’s credit rating after market close on Friday, cutting the creditworthiness of the West African sovereign a notch to B at a time of increasing funding requirements for the country.
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It is barely six months since Mongolia pulled off a daring debt exchange after the country’s finances — and its credit rating — fell into disrepair. But the new government is now planning a full return to the debt market, having picked three global banks to help ease a passage to the market.
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With the idea of a European Monetary Fund back on the table at this week’s IMF annual meetings, one Eurozone minister insisted any financing must give a state “ownership” rather than being seen as a directive from Brussels to carry out reforms
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No fewer than five euro benchmark bond issues achieved an average score of nine or above in BondMarker voting in the third quarter. Voter preference was heavily weighted towards the long end of the curve: four of the five top-scoring deals of the quarter had tenors of 10 years or longer and two were longer than 30 years.
