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Cheap money, busy investors: how can companies optimise bond funding?

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Banks are enjoying familiar dynamics in the senior bond market in 2021. Spreads have returned to record lows, pushing many transactions into negative yields, while central banks are doing their best to reduce any funding pressures by dishing out ultra-cheap loans.

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GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its Global Derivatives Awards for 2021 on Wednesday night at a gala event in London

Many law firms claim, but few can demonstrate truly global connectivity and collaboration between partners and practice areas in parallel with the provision of deep financial markets experience and expertise across transactional, product and regulatory issues.

On a number of fronts, Eurex excelled in its support of, and offering to, the derivatives market in the past year. It demonstrated its strength as Europe’s largest and one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges, and an ability to innovate and push forward new segments in risk transfer markets.

Across several areas of the interest rate derivatives business, Nomura distinguished itself from the competition in the past year, not only stepping in to provide clients with crucial liquidity, but also supporting them with a valuable mix of timely and authoritative advice and market-leading structuring and execution capabilities.

According to technology consultant Celent, conventional rules-based paradigms of approaching risk and compliance obligations have given way to risk-based approaches where greater supervision intensity is placed on high risk or systemically important financial institutions, appropriate conduct, and emergent systemic risks.

In this table, GlobalCapital Asia offers a glimpse of the bond deals that are in the works in the region

Now is the time for India to tackle regulatory roadblocks to going offshore with bank capital bonds