Only German covered avoid BaFin brake
Deutsche Hypothekenbank and UniCredit Bank priced the first sizeable new covered bonds in May this week, but hopes for a wider reopening of the jumbo market were quashed in the wake of a surprise move by the German financial regulator to ban uncovered short-selling of eurozone government bonds and naked CDS on the region’s sovereigns.
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