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  • Covered bonds offer a way for Baltic banks to develop a new seam of long-term standalone wholesale funding. But a successful conclusion to this project will depend on whether investors are convinced there is an effective mechanism for cross-border recognition of assets.
  • Cyprus printed a first 15 year benchmark on Tuesday, pushing out its curve and receiving orders of over €8bn. Despite the strong demand, the borrower elected to keep the size of the deal to €1bn, despite leads announcing on Tuesday morning that the size would be up to €1.5bn.
  • Parliamentary approval of Estonian covered bond legislation opens the way for Luminor Bank to make the first steps towards establishing a pan-Baltic covered bond market, according to the bank’s head of treasury, Max Ehrengren.
  • Investors should beware the surge in Brazilian equities that coincided with the election of its new president Jair Bolsonaro last year.
  • The Estonian Financial Services Authority this week ordered Danske Bank to leave the country. The Danish lender replied that it would exit the Baltics and Russia as a whole. Meanwhile, the Estonian regulator and its Danish counterpart are under investigation for a possible breach of European Union law in relation to Danske’s money laundering scandal.
  • Bond volumes from the Middle East are likely to outstrip last year’s, thanks to some jumbo-sized new issues. But before the giants awake, a debut borrower is set to emerge next week.