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Increasing mortgage availability and low interest rates are boosting sale of completed units in Dubai, according to property developers. "Buying homes in UAE may just have gotten more easier. Since early this year several top banks have cut interest
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Mom-and-pop investors are gaining a new spot to park their cash, as Royal Bank of Canada plans to issue the world's first batch of publicly traded U.S. dollar covered bonds, triple-A-rated assets that carry the added protection of being backed by a
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Regulators have increased the amount of bonds institutions allowed to issue on the inter-bank market, as bond issuance growth slumped this year amid a slowing economy. Previously, only issuers rated above AA, which accounts for around 75 percent of
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Story continues below Commonwealth Bank sold $3.5 billion of five-year covered notes in January, priced at more than 175 basis points more than swap rates. Suncorp has capacity to raise as much as $US5 billion under its covered-bond program, although
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English Government, Fuseworks May 10, 2012, 10:32 am A new legislative framework for the issuance of covered bonds by New Zealand registered banks will provide greater clarity for investors and depositors, Finance Minister Bill English says. The
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A Reserve Bank spokeswoman said the central bank would put out a summary of submissions "in due course". The bank would then seek Cabinet approval for the policy, before drafting legislation for its intended introduction this year. Covered bonds are
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New Zealand banks have tapped into the covered bond market as a new source of funding in the past year and their Australian parent banks may soon follow, now that the Government there has passed legislation allowing them to go ahead. ANZ National
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Covered bonds are becoming an ever-bigger source of financing for banks, and Royal Bank of Canada is reacting by increasing its ability to trade the debt. RBC said Wednesday that it has hired Michael Rudd from UBS to trade the bonds from its New York
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The U.S. mortgage industry could be in for another dramatic overhaul. Americans have missed out on the lucrative covered bond market to date, largely because they opted for mortgage-backed securities instead. But U.S. lawmakers have proposed new
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