Bloomberg Chinese authorities are studying plans to help banks replenish capital as they look to continue with their crackdown on financial risk without hurting credit growth. The move to promote sales of perpetual bonds as soon as possible comes as new regulations on asset management force banks to absorb off-balance-sheet debts. Swelling soured loans and a slump in share prices …

Bloomberg A record amount of collateralised loan obligations will be eligible to be reset or refinanced next month, potentially putting more pressure on prices. But the concerns may be for naught as the malaise weighing on credit markets could derail part of the push. More than $52 billion of CLOs originally issued in 2017 and 2018 could be refinanced or …

Bloomberg Swedish activist investment firm Cevian Capital has built a 2.3 percent stake in Nordea Bank Abp in a move that may put pressure on the Nordic region’s largest bank to improve its revenue development and profitability. Cevian’s comment that it “sees significant value potential in Nordea” and that it “will work with Nordea’s owners, board and management to realise …