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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
Record-tight dollar spreads flatter public sector borrowers — and flag a deeper unease about the benchmark itself
If it looks like a covered bond, acts like a covered bond and prices like a covered bond, then it probably should be treated like one
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Andrea Orcel, the new CEO of UniCredit, may be annoyed to be upstaged by Avalon Penrose, an actor whose hilarious and heart-tugging Twitter video about the GameStop share maelstrom has captured the insanity of stock markets. But these are the frothy markets we live in now. -
A new era has begun in the US, with the swearing in of Joe Biden as president. For America and the rest of the world it is a sea change in leadership style and political substance.
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Social bonds have long been the poor cousin of green bonds. A smaller, less well organised market.
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This week’s burst of covered bonds was exceptionally well received and boosted supply hopes. But even though the funding was cheap and deal execution certain, the supply outlook remains grim.
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Few deals have ever had €75bn of orders. Spain managed to lose that much, but still have €55bn remaining in the book. This is the world the ECB’s purchase programmes have built.
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The European Central Bank’s bond buying programme is, for better or worse, the saviour of the corporate bond market, keeping access open for most issuers for all but a few days last year. But the easy money for borrowers big enough to access the bond market is inadvertently twisting the screws on already battered small and medium sized enterprises.
