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Whisper it quietly: Europe might have a fully-functioning equity capital market in 2013. One full week into the new year and already there’s a jumbo IPO in pre-marketing, a deal that if successful could be bigger than anything achieved in 2012 before October.
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With mandates locked and loaded into the SSA chamber, ready for the starter’s gun to sound next week, we could be in for a bumper year. But it would be imprudent to be too optimistic about the current wave of relief washing over the market in the wake of some temporary relief over the US fiscal cliff and a better feeling about the eurozone.
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If you can’t beat them, get them to join you. That seems to have been the thinking at Barclays after what has been a horrific year for the firm.
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This week Commerzbank unveiled a highly rated SME structured covered bond. It offers tremendous hope for the revival of the European economy, as it suggests banks have a way of financing this crucial sector with capital market funding.
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The European Stability Mechanism has been beavering away, finalising its bond documentation and marketing itself. But there is still no sense of when, or what, it will issue.
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It was pleasing this week to see the eurozone finally accept the proposition that Greece needs real debt reduction if it is to stand even the remotest chance of getting out of its mess. But what Tuesday’s debt relief package (see cover story) really betrayed was Europe’s fear about losing its first member of the euro. It is right to be so fearful.