SSA bankers scrape around for business in supply drought

Sovereign, supranational and agency bankers are urging their clients to take advantage of receptive market conditions as dealers’ lack of inventory starts to bite, sending spreads ever tighter and investors struggling to find assets in the secondary market. The supply shortage is expected to worsen as Japanese investor buying kicks in on the back of quantitative easing and a heavy redemption schedule sets in, in May and June.