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It’s hard to shed too many tears when a leveraged private equity company with stacks of non-recourse debt transforms into a respectable listed investment grade corporate, with the attendant switch from mammoth securitization financings to regular unsecured vanilla bonds. But monetary policy is now systematically pushing in this direction.
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Amid much turmoil over whether Portugal will lose the one investment grade rating that is keeping it on the European Central Bank’s shopping list, no one is asking a vital question. -
EM bonds are the must-have item of 2016 — an oasis in a yield-less desert. Record investor inflows are fuelling rising asset prices. It will not last forever, so borrowers should take advantage.
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Recent signals from European regulators over the treatment of additional tier one coupons are great for bank debt investors, but a softer approach may also open up the market to unfamiliar faces.
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It is a neat irony that, following the UK’s vote to leave Europe, the sterling bond market is starting to look more and more European.
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The UK’s RMBS market shrugged off Brexit. Whether it can survive the Bank of England’s new Term Funding Scheme (TFS) is another matter.
