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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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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.
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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.