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  • Italy doesn’t mince its words on troubled assets. Loans in danger of becoming non-performing are dubbed ‘incagli’, which means ‘run aground’. When they become the ‘NPLs’ we hear so much about, they are ‘sofferenze’, which simply means suffering.
  • For assessing risk aversion in debt capital markets, the figure of how many corporate high yield bonds are sold during a certain period comes can be a handy reference, but not this year.
  • Investors are clawing for paper in the corporate bond market this week, but even before the promise of European Central Bank intervention this was a perfectly attractive asset class.
  • It’s April, so that means it’s time to start talking about 10 year Bund yields turning negative again.
  • The US Securities and Exchange Commission has a chance to examine its conscience over plans to curb derivatives use. It should do so after the industry condemned a sweeping approach that revealed little comprehension of the many sensible interactions that exist between derivatives and everyday capital markets.
  • Europe’s private debt market is growing, as companies seek funding diversity and longer maturities than offered by bank loans. GlobalCapital estimates there was €45bn of issuance of private debt to institutional investors last year.