All Special Report articles – Page 74
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Credit: Debt Markets & Private Equity
With non-bank lending on the rise in Europe but significant barriers to entry into the business, the mid-market private equity industry might be ready to take up some of the slack
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Credit: Direct Lending Spreads
The search for yield has sucked significant institutional capital into European direct-lending markets
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Credit: Shipping Debt
Despite a background that might suggest a ready supply of bargains, shipping debt and the banks that have written it have come through recent years in remarkably good shape
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Credit: Dutch mortgage market thrives as investors pour in
Assets held in Dutch mortgage funds grew by a staggering 81% or €3bn during 2014
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Technology: European Venture Hubs
As London gets pushed into fourth place by Beijing as a venture capital centre, we ask what is required to create Silicon Valley-type hubs in Europe
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Special ReportThe Technology Sector: Potential in the exponential
The cost of computer processing power has decreased exponentially over recent decades, a trend we are all familiar with when we compare the clunky IBM PCs of the 1980s or 90s with today’s smartphones
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Financial Services Technology: Tech transformer
Technology is transforming financial services across the board
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Technology: Late-Stage Fundraising
There has been a sudden jump in the number of technology-based companies that have raised equity privately at $1bn-plus valuations, often with no sign of an IPO to come
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Technology: The Third Industrial Revolution
A number of fast-moving technological trends seem to be spreading the importance of ‘tech’ beyond IT and into every corner of our lives and our economy
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The Internet of Things
The technology mega trends of ‘Big Data’, robots and drones, sensors, wireless communications and machine intelligence all come together in the industrial theme that is the ‘Internet of Things’
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Convertible bonds: key lessons from 150 years of issuance
Beat Thoma outlines some of the key lessons from 150 years of convertible bond issuance
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Convertible bond valuations remain attractive
Subdued volatility has taken the options within convertible bonds down to very attractive valuations
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Investors warm up to bank contingent convertible bonds
Investors have grown in confidence with bank contingent convertible bonds as their confidence in bank stability has risen
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Convertible bond performance: Best of both worlds
The hybrid characteristics of convertible securities provide strategic benefits through economic cycles
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'CoCos': bondholder's friends or foes?
There are complexities associated with banks’ contingent convertibles, or ’CoCos’, but this, combined with a more resilient, less systemically-linked industry, is a source of value
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GDP-linked sovereign bonds: Would investors buy them?
Some emerging markets have experimented with GDP-linked sovereign borrowing, and the Greek finance minister is the latest to discuss the idea. We ask whether investors would buy it
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Convertibles and Solvency II: Commentary
Nicolas Delrue argues that mixing convertible bonds with equities preserves equity upside exposure with lower downside risk
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Convertibles and Solvency II: Preaching to the unconverted
Joseph Mariathasan asks whether convertible bonds might offer Solvency II-regulated investors some equity upside with a limited capital charge
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Special ReportHybrid Securities: Financial duck-rabbits
Recently someone from the Outer Hebrides posted online a photo of a dress, the colour of which had apparently caused endless debate among family and friends
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Non-financial hybrid securities: Fixed-income exotica
Hybrids have taken off because they marry the current needs of both issuers and fixed-income investors. David Turner looks at how this sweet deal could go sour
