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The European Banking Authority has proposed that covered bond swaps should be exempt from the central clearing proposals set out as part of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (Emir). In so doing it has provided the market with a fillip, but there is a risk covered bonds will lose appeal if issuers' swap obligations become too onerous to fulfil.
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As if international sukuk were not already rare enough with only six dollar issuers so far in 2014, this week brought an even more unusual sighting — a deal that didn’t have an outrageously oversubscribed order book. Turkiye Finans can thank Damac Real Estate Development’s aggressive handling of investors for that, and so may the rest of the sukuk market.
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India's cash-strapped state-owned banks breathed a sigh of relief last month when the country's central bank pushed back its rollout of Basel III by a year. But the move fails to reward the better functioning private sector banks and takes India a step further away from a more efficient financial system. -
How much should you get paid to hold a deeply subordinated chunk of hybrid bank capital with idiosyncratic structural features from, sometimes, darkly storied credits?
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The European Banking Authority’s effort to improve transparency on balance sheet encumbrance has come to nothing. The draft guideline, which will be finalised by June, is practically useless because it doesn’t include emergency central bank liquidity, which is the largest and most important source of encumbrance. But that’s probably just as well, for if this disclosure became public knowledge, it would create just the sort of negative feedback loop that brought down the UK’s Northern Rock.
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Financial institutions normally focus selling private placement deals in core currencies – euros and dollars — but BPCE has been busy diversifying to other currencies over the past weeks and its European peers should follow the bank’s initiative.
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The hills are alive with the sound of MTNs this week, with half the market taking their lead from the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and hitting the slopes.
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It's great when a plan comes together, especially in times like these, when the plan involves recapitalising Europe's crisis-weary banks with a high-yielding but risky instrument that could potentially lose you a lot of money.
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Nobody believes that Danièle Nouy, the chair of the European Central Bank’s new single supervisory board, will allow any European financial institution to fail. On Sunday she was reported to have said that this is what the market expects — but that couldn't be further from the truth.
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With strikes in the news this week there was definitely a 1980s feel to London — and Deutsche Bank’s Anthony Saputo thought it was the perfect excuse to revert back to his childhood and break out his froggie onesie.
