During the European debt crisis, there were flashes of hope that the European banks were going to retrench from the US debt market. While there were some pockets of lending that they left, in the end the competitive landscape did not change meaningfully,” says the head of a debt capital markets desk in New York.
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It had looked inevitable, with the higher cost of dollar funding, increased regulatory capital requirements and domestic pressure to reduce risk and return to core businesses, that the European banks would be forced to scale back in or exit from the US debt capital markets.
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