Europe
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The investment grade corporate bond market, wrapped in the warm blanket of the Corporate Sector Purchase Programme, continues to avoid the brunt of wider market volatility, but investors are fighting back and issuers have no choice but to take note.
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Russia plans to raise $7bn in the international markets next year as part of a three pillared approach to reduce its budget deficit, as sanctions and low oil prices continue to stunt its growth. -
The acceleration of Europe’s push to impose margin on uncleared derivatives trades has galvanised big banks to ramp up clearing across products as they face a tighter deadline to comply than expected. The European Council’s timeline for approving the rules makes a January rollout likely, writes Dan Alderson.
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Italy showed that not every investor’s fingers were burned by the sudden sell-off of its debut 50 year benchmark last week, as it printed its largest private placement in over 18 months on Monday.
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Guarantor: Financial Market Stabilisation Fund of the Federal Republic of Germany
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A sell-off in eurozone government debt last week, over rumours that the European Central Bank might start tapering its quantitative easing programme, may have helped issuers bring more shorter dated deals in euros this week than have been possible for months — but some issuers are wary that more volatility could be ahead.
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Including redemptions and central bank buying, the investable eurozone covered bond market has shrunk almost €80bn so far this year. No surprise, then, that three seven year deals issued this week by Ibercaja, Banco Sabadell and Bank of Montreal were swamped with demand.
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The European Stability Mechanism is close to deciding on the format its first dollar benchmark will be printed in, while a deal due this Friday could open up to longer dated tenors what has already been an extremely strong dollar market in the three year part of the curve.
