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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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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.
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You have to pity sovereign, supranational and agency funding officials in Europe.