"Obviously the currency being hammered in Japan is benefiting the exporters, so you’re still getting better Japan versus Korea...So [investors] are now looking at smaller niche trades.”
"Obviously the currency being hammered in Japan is benefiting the exporters, so you’re still getting better Japan versus Korea...So [investors] are now looking at smaller niche trades.”
—Timothee Bousser, managing director and head of global equity flow trading for Asia Pacific at Société Générale in Hong Kong, on investors buying outperformance options or variance swaps on the Nikkei 225 against the Kospi 200.
Social bonds have become an established part of the funding market for supranational, sovereign and agency borrowers, with a steady output of about €140bn a year from all kinds of issuer, since the exceptional surge during the pandemic.