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Issuers have frontloaded their core currency funding and could benefit from turning their attention to other projects as the year draws to an end
Reforms should focus on banks' access to liquidity, not capital
Issuer has set the stage for peers to return to public market
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
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Mega bond fund Pimco has been meeting issuers in Portugal to assess whether a sell-off sparked by concerns surrounding Banco Espírito Santo marks the time — after a five year absence — to plunge back into the nation’s debt. But the timing is a little bizarre.
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Speculative grade debt has been hoping to polish up its image for some years now. US regulators want to make sure we remember it has warts but it doesn't need to scare us off.
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The latest bout of US sanctions against Russia are the biggest warning yet as to just how awkward the US can make doing business with Russian companies. But if sanctions are extended further, there could be one big winner.
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Without much in the way of objection or debate, SME funding has become a privileged financial regulatory activity. But if SMEs are a special case, why not green bonds? Better to keep bank regulation for regulating banks.
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So that’s what a crisis feels like. We’d almost forgotten. European stocks down nearly 4% in the past week, Portugal’s CDS spread shooting from 157bp to 218bp. Banks’ newly minted CoCo tier one bonds dropping three percentage points in a day.
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It was too good to last. A near constant stream of blowout deals since the start of the year for sovereigns in the eurozone periphery came to an end with Greece’s July 2017 bond this week.