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Turbulent market conditions of the Middle East war have pushed bond issuers and investors to try new things
A swift response is tempting, but lenders should avoid kneejerk reaction
Talk of de-dollarisation has evaporated. The dollar market remains the undisputed king of financing
Inflation caused by war threatens budding recovery in commercial real estate
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The business model of marketplace lender SoFi can sometimes sound like the subject of a grim corporate dystopia. The fintech start-up is not only in the business of selling loans — it wants to bring millennials on board from early adulthood until death, through relationships and home-building. -
Vietnam’s equity capital markets is peculiar in that doing an IPO and listings are viewed as two separate events, leading to companies, particularly state-owned ones, often being in no hurry to start trading their shares on the stock exchanges. There’s no simple solution, but a shake-up of the market is well overdue.
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Attitudes towards Russian credits have miraculously softened this year and the friendly new outlook has even filtered to the loan market, as last week Norilsk Nickel signed the first sizeable unsecured dollar loan since the EU and US imposed their sanctions. But loans bankers would do well to remember what drove them away from Russian deals in the first place.
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Deutsche Bank, its balance sheet and the market it operates in are worlds away from where major financial institutions stood in 2008 — so those scaremongering either have their own incentives for doing so or should know better.
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The highly dysfunctional and hostile political environment in Washington, DC is making it difficult to pass any real financial regulatory reform, limiting Congress’s ability to enact meaningful change.
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Private equity firms have jumped on the recent rally in ABS spreads to dust off loan portfolios for public syndication. The structures are bespoke, and the deals are one-offs — a far cry from the market being just another funding tool for banks. But that's OK.
