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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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The US’s imposition of an $8.9bn fine on BNP Paribas for involvement in breaking sanctions on Cuba, Iran and Sudan has shocked bankers in Europe.
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With €70bn sold this year, covered bond issuance should trounce last year’s €98bn total. Better still, with several countries returning to the market and regulations likely to improve conditions, this year’s progress should be sustained for years to come.
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The world has changed. From this week we are living in a post-UK sovereign sukuk era, where all things in Islamic finance seem possible and the market is alive with imaginings of follow-on deals and projects to come.
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Since Goldman’s Figsco (Fixed Income Global Structured Covered Obligation) trade hit the screen, capital markets commentators, GlobalCapital included, have been scratching heads and stroking beards about what it actually is.
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In a week that took in the fastest turnaround of a peripheral eurozone sovereign from bailout to bond syndication, bond investors have once again demonstrated their willingness to embrace anything with a whiff of yield. But low levels of volatility and strong markets have participants worried that investors could be left with a stinky mess on their hands.
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Everyone knows that central banking is as much about posturing as taking action. With that in mind, European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi must be pleased that peripheral European ABS paper has tightened by about 20bp since his announcement two weeks ago that his employer would look into outright purchases of “simple and transparent” ABS.