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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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Capital requirements ought to be the soft padding that lets the market bounce around without doing any damage. But when they are too high, capital requirements, rather than economics, set the price of a security.
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In the patter emerging market syndicate bankers roll out after a deal is priced, they often modestly (HA!) extol the virtues of their own execution, the timing of a deal and, in the slight hope of a quote massaging the ego of their client, the issuer’s own expertise.
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Greece’s sovereign funding officials may have had their spirits lifted by the success of Portugal and Ireland in returning to the bond market in the past year. But although Greece’s yields are falling, its loudly broadcast hopes of making its comeback before May’s European elections border on the Panglossian side of optimism.
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In May 2013, the bond market was in the last throes of its buy anything and everything mode as Petrobras sold the largest ever EM bond at $11bn. Petrobras has now returned with an $8.5bn sale.
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The launch of the first green bond index is a coup for Solactive and the Climate Bonds Initiative, though neither of them has put an enormous amount of work into it.
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Covered bond disclosure has come on leaps and bounds over the past few years, but this week it took a humble sellside analyst to tell teams of industry specialists that, despite all their strenuous efforts, they had got it wrong.