How are investors positioned and what do they want going into the autumn reopening? Such questions were central to an inaugural survey by Crédit Agricole CIB syndicate conducted in the wake of unprecedented action to tackle ...
CACIB survey: Investors primed for SNP
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The new market for senior non-preferred debt has developed quickly since its opening in December. European Commission plans for a common instrument and ECB interventions have meanwhile both helped and complicated progress. ...
Senior non-preferred: Defining moments
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Bringing together various members of the ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council’s Bail-In Working Group, regulators, issuers and other market participants, a bail-in seminar, chaired by Tim Skeet, was held on 7 ...
Bail-in: Joining the dots
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Efforts in the past year such as NPL reform and the launch of the Atlante fund raised hopes that alternatives to bail-outs/ins could be found to address capital pressures facing Italian banks — but then Brexit struck. Neil ...
Italy: Pride before a fall?
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The year began inauspiciously, with regulatory pronouncements casting a pall of fear and uncertainty over an AT1 market already spooked by macroeconomic news. We asked leading market participants how they expect key ...
2016: New headwinds hit
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The Dutch Additional Tier 1 market kicked off in January when Rabobank took advantage of long-awaited domestic clarity over treatment of the instrument to open the market. Since then Dutch banks have been active across the ...
Dutch enter new capital era
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The Bail-In Working Group (BIWG) of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) wrote to the European Central Bank over the summer to set out views on the operation of the bail-in mechanism, notably that the ...
Bail-in: Uninvestable consequences?
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Bond markets have since mid-April been hit by unprecedented volatility – and, in the words of European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, everyone had better get used to it. Here, investors and Crédit Agricole CIB ...
Getting used to volatility
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Philippe Picagne, senior analyst — insurance, at CreditSights, and University Professor, examines the challenges facing the European insurance sector, and explores how Solvency II is affecting their strategies, not least ...
CreditSights: European insurers
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