The EuroWeek-DZ Bank Roundtable: Navigating Germany's Government-Guaranteed Bank Bonds

EuroWeek, in partnership with DZ Bank, recently held a roundtable where representatives from German bank and corporate issuers and financial intermediaries detailed the key features of Germany's government guarantee scheme, managed by the financial markets stabilisation fund, SoFFin. The roundtable participants discussed expected levels, and sources, of guaranteed bank paper in 2009 and how the new asset class is expected to affect the funding strategies of domestic and international SSA borrowers in Germany.