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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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The Fifa World Cup is a time for hope — blind faith in fact — a time to put rationality aside and believe that this time things will be different. That lack of cool headedness should never carry over into the bond markets, but no one has told investors in host nation Brazil's and the wider Latin American bond markets. -
Hype often doesn’t feel like hype at the time. But in the first quarter of 2014, there was a lot of it around: UK, retail, high-tech, high-growth were all hot sectors in ECM. And then it all came crashing down.
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Mario Draghi sparked a rally in peripheral European sovereign debt on Thursday — this time with more than just words. But as peripheral sovereign bond yields have ground ever lower this year, can they really go much further?
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The ECB’s announcement on Thursday that it will look into outright purchases of simple asset backed securities wasn’t exactly a big bazooka for Europe. But it was an important step and could be a defining point in the securitization market’s history. The bazooka might not have been built yet, let alone fired, but the ECB is at least designing it so that it will work properly.
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US industrial conglomerate Gates Global has set pricing on a $2.5bn dollar tranche to back its buyout by Blackstone.
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Evraz launched a $700m deal this week to become the first Russian borrower to try to tackle the loan market since the country annexed Crimea on March 18. Other Russian borrowers considering loans can learn from its approach.
