Americas

UK banks will be allowed to use one year call structures to optimise the capital eligibility of their senior bonds, after the Bank of England published new rules governing the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL).

US and European equity investors have reacted with a degree of equanimity to Donald Trump’s capture of the White House, fastening on to the idea that he is likely to stimulate the US economy with deficit spending.

Citigroup has made a new appointment in its Americas equity capital markets business.

Velocity, a derivatives blockchain project, has closed, saying that financial derivatives “are a little too early” for the Ethereum ecosystem.

Remarkable resilience in the face of an uncertain future was the tale of emerging market bond prices on Wednesday as Donald Trump won the presidential election in the US, much to the surprise of EM traders themselves, who expected the risk aversion to last much longer. But the outlook for EM bonds under a Trump presidency is far from rosy. Latin America has been the clear underperformer so far but more pain is expected.

Donald Trump’s shock success in the US presidential election in the early hours of Wednesday met staunch resistance as far as EM asset prices were concerned. But dealers apportioned this to technical factors underpinning the market and warned that the long term impacts of the poll result are yet to be seen. GlobalCapital dissects the impact on EM region by region.

Remarkable resilience in the face of an uncertain future was the tale of emerging market bond prices on Wednesday as Donald Trump won the presidential election in the US, much to the surprise of EM traders themselves, who expected the risk aversion to last much longer. But the outlook for EM bonds under a Trump presidency is far from rosy. Latin America has been the clear underperformer so far but more pain is expected.

There was a benign response in the European leveraged loan market on Wednesday to Donald Trump's shock US election victory. How the result affects the post-summer repricing wave is a little more unclear, however, especially given the pipeline of new paper.

Donald Trump’s shock US election victory in the early hours of Wednesday caused a shockwave to course through derivative markets overnight. But by midday in London traders said the overall reaction was much more orderly than in the aftermath of the UK vote in June to leave the European Union - and by close of business some markets had made full scale retrenchment.

The European high yield market on Wednesday proved that it has learned at least one lesson from its Brexit experience: the unexpected does not mean market shutdown. Despite Donald Trump's surprise US presidential election win on Wednesday morning, HY market participants think issuance could resume quickly.

The FIG market looked set to shrug off Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the US presidential election on Wednesday, and bankers were optimistic that new issuance could restart in a matter of days.

Capital markets participants in Asia were digesting the news of Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election as markets in the region went into freefall. While bankers and investors admit that no market will be immune to the news, they are expecting a quick rebound in ECM, while debt issuers will take longer to come to terms with the result.