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Sovereign closed 'remarkable' deal despite US Treasury pricing drama
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  • Latin America's primary bond market has had its slowest start for nine years despite strong appetite for emerging market debt. This has presented an unexpected opportunity for issuers, and those from Brazil are best placed to take advantage.
  • The UK banking sector has more links to China than the equivalent sectors in the US, Japan, the euro area and South Korea do combined. Analysts are warning that China's growth is slowing, and HSBC’s poor results have been linked to this. But those espousing that view are overstating the connection.
  • 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.