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Investors seek structured and vanilla FRNs from credit and SSA issuers amid sharp rate fluctuations
Higher dollar yields dampen some of the callable demand
Hong Kong dollars continue to develop into a mainstream funding currency for SSAs
Ex-Crédit Agricole banker to be based in Paris
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CP investors looked to buy paper at the short-end from Spanish and Italian banks because of volatility surrounding short term rates. They also bought northern European bank paper further out along the curve.
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Taiwanese life insurers diversified further away from 30 year multi-callable zero coupon deals this week, buying rare 20 year fixed rate deals — some with calls and some rare bullets — from Australian banks this week.
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Investors this week turned their attention to bank commercial paper as a tightened euro/dollar basis swap and excess of dollar liquidity made paper at the short-end from many sovereign, supranational and agency issuers more expensive.
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China Merchants Bank and Lloyds Banking Group tapped international private placement demand for exotic currencies with deals in Chinese renminbi and Indian rupees this week. Bank issuers, though, were in the main confined to vanilla short-dated floating rate notes, though Nordea Bank Finland printed a pair of longer dated covered bonds.
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Puttable structures were in vogue with bank issuers this week, as western European financial institutions proved that the product is not just for issuers in crisis.
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Banks sold almost double the amount of ECP maturing this week, as dollar and euro spreads came closer to converging. Meanwhile, dealers hope the ECB’s 25bp interest rate rise will convince investors to push out their maturities.