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The necessity of clauses that help developing countries recover from catastrophes is getting more acute
Data-deprived markets should give the shutdown the attention it deserves
Triple-C loan pricing has been shunted wider while the true credit quality of loans trading at par is obscured
Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders should consider alternatives after this week's sharp repricing
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s announcement this week that UK retail investors have lost £27m to FX and crypto scams will have won little more than passing attention from heavyweight capital markets players. -
The UK’s approach to regulating banks points in opposite directions, as Tesco Bank’s decision to exit the mortgage market shows. But this will not matter to the customers it is supposed to benefit.
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The post-IPO performance of Uber and Lyft shares shows a new level of investor scepticism towards tech ‘unicorns’. It’s about time.
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European commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) have enjoyed a revival of late, despite the battering they took during the crisis years. Although regulators excluded the asset class from the Simple, Transparent and Standardised (STS) framework, it has shown that a select band of specialist investors is enough to get by in post-crisis securitization markets.
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A decade ago any threat of volatility anywhere within the CEEMEA bond markets would shut them down. Not anymore. Nowadays scares barely even shut those parts of the market that they most affect, as this week’s bumper bond crop shows.
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Dismal European growth has weighed on rates, forcing buyers down the curve in search of yield and spread. A sharp turnaround feels distant, but a stabilisation has already materialised and investors that piled into long-dated bonds may come to regret it.
