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The public bond market needs a Gulf reopener with transparent pricing
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
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When Mario Draghi said — for the second time— that the ECB would consider buying ABS to boost Europe’s economic prospects, everyone took note. Everyone, it seems, except Europe’s regulators, who have shown a reluctance to change their anti-securitization tack. It is time for them to swallow some pride and roll back the harshest securitization regulation — before it is too late.
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With a slew of FIG ECM deals on the way, bank fundraisings — especially in southern Europe — need to be quick, or elegant, or they will die.
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With a slew of FIG ECM deals on the way, bank fundraisings — especially in southern Europe — need to be quick, or elegant, or they will die.
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The wave of CEEMEA sovereigns tapping the euro market before the volatility of this week was hailed by most as a temporary aberration from the norm. But issuers with large funding needs should take this opportunity to start nurturing this market more carefully and become regular issuers in both dollars and euros in the same way that the more sophisticated western SSA issuers operate.
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January may have been a wash out for Middle East bonds and sukuk issuers as well as the British public, but one of those groups still has every reason to hope that things will improve.
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A €1.4bn five year bond for the Autonomous Community of Madrid on Tuesday — its largest ever — shows that the new year rally in peripheral eurozone debt has extended from sovereign to regional issuers. With spreads over sovereigns reaching pre-crisis levels, it is time for other regional names to pull off some eye catching deals.