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With the Schuldschein having grown into one of Europe’s foremost private debt markets, Asian and European banks have swarmed to it on the hunt for implied investment grade companies to lend to. But at the corners of the market, new characters are edging into the picture. According to several market sources, hedge funds and US investment banks have started to work their way into a still rare element of the centuries-old German market — distressed debt. Silas Brown investigates. -
HSBC has made Mehmet Mazi global head of debt trading and financing, a newly created position. It comes after the departure of Elie El Hayek, a veteran of the bank who had run fixed income.
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The shock of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has forced some rapid thinking among capital markets participants. Almost the first impact has been on travel.
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The Bank of England turned up the heat on Libor this week with plans to publish a compounded Sonia index and averages in a move that will drive the transition to the new risk-free rate with a simpler coupon calculation methodology. It will also increase haircuts on Libor-linked collateral which is intended to accelerate the switch out of Libor FRNs maturing after 2021.
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The Bank of England has said it intends to publish compounded Sonia averages and a Sonia index using a ‘shift’ calculation method by the end of July, subject to feedback on a series of questions it has asked sterling market participants. This follows the first deal using that method from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Bank last week.
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Investors who have been longing for the EU Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities to tell them what is green are now realising that its arrival could make life tricky. From the end of next year, they will have to start reporting how sustainable all their portfolios are. It could prove an enormous headache. But a tiny company has developed a tool it claims can cut out a lot of the worries investors face in working out how to comply.
