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After a false start at the beginning of the year, the hybrid corporate bond market looks set for a comeback in the coming weeks with three deals already in the works and more said to be coming. While this sudden glut of supply is somewhat coincidental, it could not come at a better time and the deals should fly.
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Private equity firms acquired a bad name when it came to flipping companies back to the publically-traded sector in the years before the financial crisis. Performance figures this time around give greater comfort — and with good reason, too.
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Europe’s corporate bond market has had a deathly quiet August, with only one deal issued. But although supply will pick up, it won’t to the extent that most corporate bankers hope. Europe’s borrowers simply won’t be tempted by low absolute yields.
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European ABS is on the rise, but it needs to find more investors before appetite wanes.
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The Basel Committee says that its latest proposals will level the playing field between systemically important banks and their smaller peers. Subordinated debt practitioners say it will widen the divide between the haves and have-nots. Only one thing is clear: the banking sector’s cost of capital is set to soar.
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Russia’s VTB Bank skipped its optional call on a lower tier bond on Friday, sparking a debate that first gripped the high-grade world in 2008 when Deutsche Bank took a similar decision. If investment grade investors can get over it, those in emerging markets have no excuses.