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Issuer has set the stage for peers to return to public market
Green investors buy when everyone else stops, giving issuers one last pricing lever — perhaps to cross a line none of them wants to reach
Investors are still around and issuers can get ahead of the September rush
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The European Central Bank's decision to embrace sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) as collateral and for its asset purchase programme is a sign of what is to come. -
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked an unprecedented wave of sovereign borrowing. Much of the paper has, unsurprisingly, ended up on the balance sheets of domestic banks. This has, equally unsurprisingly, prompted a fresh round of worry about the strengthening of the sovereign-bank nexus.
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The green bond market was conceived on a simple plan. A new class of green bonds would finance environmental projects, standing out from the grey mass of ordinary bonds.
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Recent Brexit developments prove that UK banks were right to pile into the market earlier this year.
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European policymakers may decide to ramp up efforts to retain control of capital markets, amid rising Brexit tensions, the US-China dispute and the need to recover economic growth.
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The European Central Bank’s bond buying is doing bizarre things to corporate spreads that saw an airline reprice its curve this week in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime crisis for the aviation industry. With a market this broken, it’s time for the central bank to see where its money can be put to better use.
