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Financial institutions triple issuance in the currency this year, while corporates make greater use of euro and sterling taps
Private taps offer issuers an alternative route through uncertain issuance windows due the Middle East conflict, bankers say
Higher coupons and steady rate expectations draw investors back into the currency
SSA issuers increase focus on PPs amid quieter period for public markets
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Swap dealers are agog to know how much money the European Central Bank is going to lend banks on Wednesday in its second three year lending operation. But they admit that no one really knows how the money markets will react to the outcome.
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US prime money market funds’ return to Eurozone bank debt during January could be sustained via an unlikely source — a resurgence of their appetite for French bank paper.
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Chinese banks are weighing up the advantages of using euro medium term note (EMTN) programmes as an alternative source of funding to certificates of deposit (CDs), dealers said, as two rare Asian names printed notes.
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US prime money market funds still have a cautious view of Eurozone banks, dealers said, despite increasing their exposure to those institutions in January.
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European banks are accessing the longest average tenors in commercial paper (CP) in more than a year, despite some institutions in peripheral Europe struggling to print in the long end and a number of firms being placed on watch for downgrade by Moody’s.
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Fears that Italian banks’ access to short term liquidity had dried up — following Standard & Poor’s downgrade of 34 of the country’s financial institutions on February 10 — were downplayed by Intesa Sanpaolo this week.