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As loose borrower terms become more widespread in the European leveraged loan market, sponsors need to assess what protection they can give up.
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Will Europe’s bond market ever match that of the US? The odds favour ‘No’. Totting up the huge US Treasury, agency, municipal and corporate markets is not even worth the effort.
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European authorities want banks to provide credit to small and medium sized enterprises through SME backed covered bonds. But they don’t need the funding; they need capital. They need securitization.
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There was muted celebration in the European ABS market this week as yet another rule making body began to row back from the punitive regulatory treatment imposed on the industry in the wake of the financial crisis.
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LatAm bankers should know better than anyone that there is nothing silly about improving transparency in public sector contracting practices.
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Covered bond yields continued to tumble this week with coupons from German and French euro issuers skimming just above zero, at 0.025% and 0.125% respectively. Meanwhile, in Switzerland the first Swiss franc covered bond was issued with a negative yield of 0.37%. The deals may be good news for the issuers concerned, but investors are hurting. And by forcing them down the credit curve the seeds of the next crisis are potentially being sown.