European Banks: ECB SREP - Repairing Balance Sheets, Despite Profitability Challenge
The ECB's SREP press release and briefing today served to highlight some positive points on capital, credit quality but also the challenges in...
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European Banks: Screening for Value January 2020
High liquidity in markets and improving investor risk appetite appear to be driving the rotation into equities and especially value stocks, which...
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Italian Banks: Dodging The "Low Grade" M&A Bullets, at Least for Now
Banca Carige and Banca Popolare di Bari stand out as the Italian bank bailouts at the end of 2019 This highlights, in our view, that increasingly...
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Galliano's Latin Notes 2019 Recommendations in Review, and Initial Thoughts for 2020
Our post mortem of 2019 recommendations shows that we have had some successes; good bull calls were Gentera SAB De CV (GENTERA* MM EQUITY) in...
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Italian Banks and Target2 November Flows - More than ECB Deposit Rate Arbitrage
The November data for Target2 flows are encouraging, following on from October when the flow was helped by the Italian banks' arbitrage of their...
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