Sino-Russia ties strengthened by exchange agreements
China and Russia are forging ahead with closer financial market ties, with the Moscow Exchange (Moex) and Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) looking to facilitate two-way investments between the countries....
View ArticleInternational Business seals $206m pre-Christmas block
International Business Settlement Holdings, formerly known as Chaoyue Group, has closed a HK$1.6bn ($206.1m) equity fundraise just before Christmas.
View ArticleLogan Property unwraps $200m ahead of holidays
Logan Property Holdings raised a quick $200m from five non call three notes on Thursday, two years after its last international public transaction.
View ArticleLongfor Properties inks Rmb3bn three year loan
Hong Kong-listed Longfor Properties has sealed a Rmb3bn ($431m) fundraising with a Chinese bank at the helm.
View ArticleChinese group buys 40% stake in Pakistan bourse
The Pakistan Stock Exchange will sell a 40% stake to Chinese buyers including the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), ending a months-long search for strategic investors.
View ArticleClifford Chance appoints Apac corporate practice head
Law firm Clifford Chance has appointed a new head of corporate practice for Asia Pacific, as the incumbent takes over a new role.
View ArticleBarclays fights RMBS charge but CS, DB settle RMBS probes
Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have settled with the US Department of Justice, putting an end to some of the worst uncertainties hanging over both banks. But Barclays said that it had been sued by the...
View ArticleFarewell 2016, hello 2017
We wish all our readers a merry Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous new year. We also hope you get some well-deserved rest over the holidays. You will need all the energy you can muster. We face...
View ArticleMonte dei Paschi rescue casts doubt on future of bail-in
The state bail-out of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, announced during the night, has brought relief to the Italian financial system — at last, there is a plan for dealing with Italy’s weakest large...
View ArticleCould MPS emerge as one of the cleaner Italian banks?
As plans for the bailout of Banca Monte dei Paschi take shape, attention is turning to how its shares could trade once the recapitalisation has taken place. The financial details are not clear yet, but...
View ArticleEsma finds divergences between regulators' supervision of CCPs
The European Securities and Markets Authority wants more convergence between central counterparties on how they comply with margin and collateral requirements.
View ArticleA year in european securitization
Reviewing some of the year’s biggest securitization stories, it looks like we started and ended the year worried about Italian NPLs.
View ArticleTide turns for Turkish loan pricing
The global rise in dollar funding, combined with political upheaval and the heavy depreciation of the lira are destroying some of the historically borrower-friendly terms available in the Turkish loan...
View ArticleAfrica feels a funding chill: first in loans, now bonds too
While some cash-strapped borrowers in Africa will bite the bullet and pay up to access international bond markets in 2017, others will have to return to the loan market for support. Virginia Furness...
View ArticleDollar and euro angst opens space for non-core bond plays
For public sector bond issuers, 2017 will be a year to hunt down arbitrage plays. Political uncertaintly looks set to rock core currency markets, leaving non-core markets to offer useful funding...
View ArticleP2P disruptors looks to join the establishment
As European marketplace lending grows and matures, the sector is becoming increasingly embedded in the financial systems that it once looked to disrupt. David Bell reports.
View ArticleGreen ABS ready to blossom, despite looming policy threats
The renewable energy ABS sector had a year of sharp growth in 2016. Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) ABS was a strong source of bonds backed by green assets. Market players hope for a similarly...
View ArticlePublic Sector Borrowers Infographics
In a year where the unexpected became the norm, one of the few constants was the ECB’s presence in the eurozone sovereign bond market — you can see the monthly pace of Mario Draghi’s purchases....
View ArticlePost-QE world will not be easier for liquidity
As the use of unconventional monetary policy comes under increasing scrutiny, investors are examining the consequences for liquidity in a world without the European Central Bank’s asset purchase...
View ArticleRussia’s bond market revival ready to roll on into 2017
In late 2016 a clutch of Russian borrowers shrugged off Western sanctions and domestic stagnation to return to the global bond markets. But will investors’ returning appetite for Russian risk survive a...
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