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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
The new European Secured Note market is keen to secure regulatory recognition for the new product but there are advantages to not having it
The possible further internationalisation of the covered bond market will present challenges as well as opportunities
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While banks have engaged in some genuinely appalling conduct and been punished for it, the quantum of fines has become seriously disconnected from — well, anything. It is not just bad for bank shareholders, it is bad for regulatory credibility.
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Financial markets operators responded this week to the European Commission’s consultation on Capital Markets Union.
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Let’s start by nipping one point in the bud: this is not a sermon on the morality of leveraged loan repricings.
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No one likes to prove Jamie Dimon right. But if Thursday’s government bond sell-off in Europe proved anything, it is that investors should indeed have liquidity at the top of their list of concerns.
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After the credit crisis, the compliance crunch. Market players wrangling with the regulatory ringwraiths Dodd-Frank, the European Market Infrastructure Regulation and the Market in Financial Instruments Directive, to name a few, are buried under sprawling compliance and capital efficiency demands. It’s time to outsource.
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The typical reaction to a borrower in the primary market on a day such as the one the European rates market suffered on Thursday is to question what said issuer had been drinking.