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Hong Kong’s loan bankers returned to work this week with a large dose of post-Christmas blues. The season of goodwill to all men, generosity and gifts is well and truly over if Towngas’s new loan is anything to go by. The Hong Kong utilities company started the year with an aggressively priced loan that pays just 58.5bp all in at the top level. Ouch.
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It is a tradition in the Taipan household that Tai Tai and I settle down after our Christmas dinner to recount the year’s events. We squabble over the best moments of the year — a new car versus a family gathering — and commiserate over the saddest: the death of Toto the chihuahua last month hit Tai Tai hard. But all in all I can’t complain.
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Excellent and cool. Two adjectives that any person or company would be delighted to be called. Well, lucky for Youku.com, a Chinese video website, that’s exactly what its name does mean in Chinese — and it more than lived up to it this week.
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Australia’s long running debate over increasing competition in the mortgage market is heading towards its denouement.
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Asia’s bond market may well be done for the year. But although tensions in Korea have highlighted a source of unpredictability, this is still the best region to be in for bankers and investors alike. We will not get far into the new year before the frenetic pace starts again.
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China’s regulatory system is easily — and often — criticised, usually for being opaque, confusing or erratic. The regulators that control China’s financial system have done little to dispel the notion that communicating effectively is low on their list of priorities. But when it comes to regulating effectively, they get more points.