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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 once-legendary Belgian dentist, who epitomised the enthusiastic retail buyer of bonds in curious, now-forgotten currencies like the Luxembourg franc, is fading from Euromarket memory.
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No sane SSA borrower would say that the public sector primary markets were in worse shape now than they were a year ago, even with the possibility of a Spanish bail-out. So given the recent experience of markets closing amid unprecedented and unpredictable volatility, why are more borrowers not looking to get ahead of 2013’s funding programmes?
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Air Liquide’s announcement this week that it had become "the first private company to issue bonds meeting SRI investors’ criteria" smelled of hype.
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All the talk in leveraged finance is about the high yield bond and leveraged loan markets converging.
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Who would be a central banker? It takes a special breed, clearly. Just ask Mario Draghi, lambasted by disgruntled politicians or bankers or investors every day before he promised to prop up Europe’s failed economies — only to find himself pilloried by a slightly different subset of the same folk every day since.
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Syndicated loans bankers with little to do other than flick through downbeat headlines have found this year tough. The depressingly low volume totals have been hard to ignore: Europe down 79%; the lowest monthly activity on record in August; investment grade deals falling by a whopping 84%.