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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 European Stability Mechanism, which is set to bring its first benchmark bond next month, should not pick the easy option and go for a five year, even though with a conservative maturity it could achieve a book the likes of which are rarely seen.
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When does an economy turn the corner and start to recover? The UK thinks it has reached that point, as chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne declared on September 9: “our economic plan is working”.
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What precisely is it about Ben Bernanke’s job that markets don’t understand? Once again the bleating has started, about how the Federal Reserve has mishandled its communication to the market and Bernanke has made a mockery of forward guidance.
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Popular opinion had, until this week, been rather unkind to UK Financial Investments, the vehicle set up to look after the UK’s stakes in banks rescued from failure in the financial crisis. But the gloriously executed start to the government’s sales of its Lloyds stake on Tuesday showed that the consensus had been unfair.
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Five years ago this week, Lehman Brothers fell. The hubris of an investment banking industry that saw itself as master of the universe met a tragic reckoning.
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Earlier this year, several CEEMEA bankers extolled the virtues of using the euro market for diversification and claimed that emerging market issuers were due a push into that currency. They thought that volatility in the dollar market had brought with it the opportunity for the European investor base to show its mettle.