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If the atmosphere at GlobalCapital’s annual Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Dinner can be taken as any kind of barometer, then the loan market going into 2015 is in rude health.
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There has been much excitement this week about corporate bonds starting to trade at negative yields, in the pressure cooker of Europe's bond market where European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi has just turned the dial up to 10.
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The idea that non-deliverable forwards should be cleared has never been easy to swallow for some in the FX market. So it comes as no surprise that the European Securities and Markets Authority has decided not to introduce clearing for NDFs. To implement that mandate now would mean piling pressure on market participants to clear an unstandardised, infant product at the same time as they are grappling with clearing for credit default swaps and interest rates.
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The US’s Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Federal Housing Administration are locked in yet another round of fisticuffs, with market share as the prize. If the private label RMBS market is to return, the government needs to stop hitting itself.
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Lulled into a false sense of security by the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme, investors seem to think they are immune from events in Greece. It’s certainly true that markets are in much better shape than they were when the country was first bailed out in 2010. Investors in AIB Mortgage Bank’s latest deal would probably vouch for that.
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Buy the rumour and then buy the fact. That was the new twist on an old City adage on Thursday as the European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi, extracted maximum mileage from his announcement of quantitative easing in Europe.