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The Schuldschein market has a grand ambition — to make it big in the US. Its reputation is growing internationally but it will not be easy to take on the more established private debt instrument, the US private placement note. Silas Brown asks: just how realistic is the Schuldschein’s American ambition?
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The Schuldschein market has broken into unknown territory, welcoming borrowers and lenders from far-flung lands, while establishing itself as a hotbed for technological advancement. Can the miracle last? Silas Brown reports.
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The Schuldschein market attracts a diverse mix of investors, with different tastes and needs. Amid the push and pull of a burgeoning market, the burning question is whether each of these differing characters will remain content — or whether some may get pushed out, as the market develops and changes shape. Silas Brown reports.
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The Schuldschein market attracted a record number of international issuers last year, and swept aside other forms of European private debt in the process. Now it must confront a bigger beast — a credit-hungry unrated public bond market — while simultaneously absorbing the impact of the European Central Bank winding down its bond purchasing programme. Silas Brown reports.
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The first quarter of 2018 was the strongest for MTN issuance across all sectors in three years, but the non-consolidated data for April looks disappointing so far. -
The thriving modern private debt market has germinated and grown in a greenhouse — the post-crisis shrivelling of banks and central bank stimulus of debt markets. But already, the banks are coming back. Next, central bank support will disappear — and sooner or later there will be a recession. Will private debt markets cope? Jon Hay reports.
