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Emerging market debt is having a stunning year — indices are looking rosy, and this week’s $7.5bn issuance bonanza in CEEMEA has taken the region to a record volume of $62.3bn so far this year.
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Investment bankers are a fickle lot — eager to stick a schadenfreude-capped boot in when they can, but quick to cry foul when said boot is on the other foot. That accounts for some of the furore surrounding the execution of Barclays’ $1bn wipe-out bond this week.
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Failed block trades have become endemic to the European ECM market and — just as with the kerfuffle over IPOs last year — frustrations are growing. Enough is enough, one investor said this week, brandishing a threat to suspend trading with banks that continue to bring over-priced deals.
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By eurozone bail-out standards, the farce of agreeing Cyprus’s deal last week was pretty tame stuff. It did not bring markets to a screeching halt and yield volatility appeared as a blip on the seismometer rather than a foundation-shaking quake.
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Emerging market bond bankers love to boast about their huge pipelines, but if they are to be believed, April 2013 could be the busiest ever month for CEEMEA bonds.
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While Cyprus reels from a week of turmoil, the European capital markets have once again proved their ability to remain almost unscathed. The breathless reports from Nicosia tell of a banking system in chaos, geopolitical struggles spanning Berlin, Brussels and Moscow, and an emotional rollercoaster for the local populace as they face ad hoc taxes one moment and assurances of safety the next.