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LATEST ARTICLES
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The landscape of the Italian banking market has been completely redrawn over the past 12 months but consolidation remains work in progress.
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First Fiji, now the Seychelles. Suddenly, all those long hours that originators spend on planes en route to visit potential clients seem less tedious.
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Although benchmarking has a part to play in some areas, there is no single approach to best execution that suits all markets.
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Enormous energy is going into the creation of new Shariah-compliant finance structures for eager Middle Eastern corporates to fund themselves by appealing to Islamic investors and their growing pool of money. Every market participant expects the surging Islamic finance sector to keep on growing fast. But a key element is missing. Secondary trading in these instruments is severely limited. Sudip Roy suggests that for the recent increase in primary market activity to be sustainable, more attention needs to be devoted to trading infrastructure.
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“A private equity play in China is exactly that – a private equity play. The price may go up or down, but that’s not a China strategy”
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Bavarian structured finance banker's national dress accidently arrives in suitcase packed for glittering awards do
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“When you talk about leasing, everyone thinks you’re talking about cars. My mother-in-law thinks I sell cars for a living”
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The gap between the top two and their closest rivals continues to increase, according to results from our recent survey on international cash management.
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Barclays Capital has identified a budding mortgage-backed securities market as one of the key reasons for its decision to open an investment banking and broker-dealer business in Mexico. The UK bank started operations in Mexico last month with $100 million in capital. Barcap also hopes to take advantage of the fast-growing local capital markets, as more companies seek to raise money through high-yielding peso-denominated bonds.
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In the article in the September issue of Euromoney entitled, "How
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More evidence of the chronic staff shortages still faced by Asia’s private banks came in September with news that UBS, the largest private bank in the region, has resorted to constructing its own purpose-built training facility for new recruits and existing staff to cater for the demands of its burgeoning Asia wealth management business.
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While the current stage in the leverage cycle benefits corporate borrowers, concern has been raised about the protection that bondholders receive against declining ratings and event risk. Does good corporate governance have anything to offer this set of stakeholders, and should it have? Florian Neuhof reports.
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There has been no relief from the pressures that last year’s annual cash management poll detected: globalization, declining margins and intensified competition. Smaller banks face a choice between expanding to compete or forming difficult-to-implement partnerships. Some might soon begin to question whether all the effort is worthwhile. Lawrence White reports.
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More than 8,000 hedge funds are now registered in the Cayman Islands.
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Eurozone countries are continuing to boost productivity vis-à-vis that in the US; consequently European equities are outperforming American ones.
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Investigations into the backdating of stock options has caused around half of the more than 100 companies under scrutiny by the SEC and/or the Department of Justice to miss deadlines for filing earnings. More are likely to follow, says Todd Fernandez, senior analyst at independent institutional research firm Glass Lewis & Co.
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RAB's recent acquisition is second in two years.
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The man behind Man Group is to step down from his role of CEO.
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Benefit of hedge fund ratings to investors is questionable.
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Further regulation on delivery needed, says consultant.
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The debt burden is a growing worry, not least because many of those that invest in the debt market’s increasingly ingeniously packaged instruments are themselves heavily leveraged.
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The postponement because of rain of the annual charity hedge fund polo tournament in Darien, Connecticut, meant a few key players were unable to make it, but it didn’t stop play altogether.
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Buzz over US continues, but Europe still getting its act together.
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There have been plenty of compelling reasons to go short credit as an asset class this year. Investment-grade corporates are under threat from leveraged takeover by huge private equity funds; at the lower end of the credit spectrum, the easy availability of cheap credit even to risky B-rated borrowers has stretched leverage ratios to unsustainable levels.
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Over the years ABN Amro has suffered a series of setbacks. But Niall Cameron argues that internal noise over organization charts has died down and the focus is on the business.
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Likelihood of “ratings shopping” by borrowers/dealers increases.
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The possibility that the long end of the US yield curve might continue to invert has supported long-end issuance from international sovereign and supranational issuers.
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Taking the successful US CRE CDO model and simply applying it to the European CMBS market is unlikely to work.
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Investors get fat yields as rating agencies seek extra credit enhancement.