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Covered bond issuers have been reluctant to issue on the same day as a central bank announcement, but this is starting to change
Markets are looking to the authorities to simplify blockchain issues, but they may not have the purest motives
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The possible further internationalisation of the covered bond market will present challenges as well as opportunities
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Mario Draghi, European Central Bank president, is known for playing with his bazooka. Right now, it feels more like his Badedas. The capital markets are swimming in froth, as surely as if Draghi had doused them with revitalising bath goo.
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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.
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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.
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It’s April, so that means it’s time to start talking about 10 year Bund yields turning negative again.
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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.
