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Investment grade companies seeking bridge loans are sitting pretty. Banks have not lent at lower rates for decades, and there is little room for margins to go lower. -
If there was ever an idea whose time has come, it is green securitization. Action to green the economy is super-urgent, and progress so far has been worryingly slow.
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Syndicate bankers often joke that Brazil issuing is a sign that it’s time to sell Latin American bonds, and a sell-off indeed began this week just as the sovereign was pricing its latest deal. But market jitters should not distract from an improving picture in the country.
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The European Central Bank, after two years spent rewriting the central banker’s rule book doing “whatever it takes” to drive up inflation, is now in the tricky position of maybe having overshot. But while tapering QE is already on the cards, the biggest threat to the cost of debt in the eurozone for many years is closer than ever.
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One big strength of the Schuldschein (SSD) market could become its weakness.
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Contagion from Greece’s never ending bailout saga was supposed to be a thing of the past. But the European Financial Stability Facility’s questionable 39 year tranche this week shows country still has the ability to hit the euro market — albeit by the back door this time.
