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A sovereign issuing bonds after US military strike threats would be absurd if those threats had been made by any other president
Foreigners' love of Swiss francs presents an unlikely opening for overseas borrowers
The necessity of clauses that help developing countries recover from catastrophes is getting more acute
Data-deprived markets should give the shutdown the attention it deserves
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This week really should not have ended as well as it appears to have done. Italy has no government, and there is a chance that its next one will be led by a comedian, or someone who only last year had to give up the job.
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ECM bankers are getting used to what they see as a vociferous minority of outspoken UK fund managers trash-talking IPOs — and the banks that sponsor them — almost as a matter of course.
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Let’s not take anything away from Spain’s dollar bond comeback this week. It was a good deal, well executed. Spain went for tight pricing and achieved its aim, rather than gunning for a Broadway-style showstopper priced cheap enough to snaffle every spare dollar going.
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Corporate hybrid capital is just the kind of thing investment bankers love. A shiny new product promising multiple wins for both issuer and investor — not to mention structuring mandates for the banks.
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Hungary’s blowout five and 10 year bonds this week demonstrated spectacularly that emerging market bond investors are willing to hold their noses and look the other way for the sake of boosting their portfolios’ returns.
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How many times has a banker at a leading firm told you it was only a matter of time before the weaker brethren (here he or she names a few lesser banks) would drop out of the market, exhausted?