Europe
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Olaf Scholz, finance minister and vice-chancellor for Germany, said that there was 'no debate' about the creation of a bad bank in a prospective merger between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank. He also does not believe that the recapitalisation of NordLB by the association of German savings banks would contravene EU state aid rules. -
Akbank is kicking off the first set of refinancings of the year for Turkish banks, launching its syndication with a smaller volume and tighter margins than last year’s deal. But lenders are divided on whether the deal represents an achievement for the Turkish bank, or betrays an outlook festooned with risk. Mariam Meskin reports.
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This week's scorecard looks at the progress Nordic agencies have made in their 2019 funding programmes halfway through the first quarter.
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Robert Horat, managing director of the Zurich-based Pfandbriefbank schweizerischer Hypothekarinstitute, says he is mystified as to why the pooling model underpinning Swiss Pfandbriefe has not been used as a blueprint for covered bond markets elsewhere in Europe.
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BNP Paribas and Société Générale both announced new plans to slim down their investment banks this week. They posted sharp drops in revenue across global markets operations that were, on balance, a bit worse than those registered so far by the rest of the industry.
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Many of the assumptions that surrounded older iterations of perpetual bank capital instruments are still there in the new class of additional tier one securities.
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KfW set yet another landmark for a supranational and agency sterling market enjoying its best ever start to the year, as the German borrower drew a big book while placing the longest dated new issue of the year so far on Wednesday.
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The theme in the euro public sector market this week was large book sizes despite issuers paying very little concession, with Finland, the European Investment Bank (EIB), Madrid and the Joint Länder all keeping close to their curves.
