Bank Credit Compass: Asia’s Q2 Winners and Losers; What Looks Mispriced into H2
Alpha generation remains available within individual Asian bank bonds. We expect security selection to have a greater impact during the second half...
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BDO Unibank – Is A Capital Raise Next?
*Provision Cover Being Shored Up: On May 31, 2020, BDO Unibank (BDO.PM) [BDO] announced a PHP 20 bn special loan loss provision in anticipation of...
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The Week That Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma - Asian Hospitals, Noodles, and SingTel
This past week's offering of Insights across ASEAN@Smartkarma is filled with another eclectic mix of differentiated, substantive and actionable...
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United Overseas Bank: Go Underweight AT1
Underweight United Overseas Bank (UOBSP) Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bonds. From a relative value perspective, we believe these bonds are likely to...
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United Overseas Bank and RLAR Cake
United Overseas Bank (UOB) has its cake and eats it too by presenting regulatory loss allowance reserves (RLAR) as both regulatory capital and as...
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